There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Angelou names the particular pain of silence — of having something that needs to be said, created, or shared, and keeping it locked inside out of fear or circumstance. This is not about writing. It is about any form of self-expression: the business you haven't started, the conversation you haven't had, the art you haven't made. The agony is not the risk of sharing. It is the certainty of what happens when you don't.
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.”
Henry Ford“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have...”
Brené Brown“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accom...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson