Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelouwas an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, tells of her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 April 1928
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the future, and the better future.
I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, ... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.
The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This year the focus of our conference is on cardiovascular disease or heart disease and how to translate research into practice.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
Forgive yourself - no one else will.
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.