I love the rhythm of her voice it's a song onto itself as a poet it ignites a mood and cadence and orchestra in every breath
@Phys190510 жыл бұрын
Still I Rise Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014 You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
@MattBaldwin7777 жыл бұрын
Marvelous. She changes me, somehow, with her words, somehow, not once, and it is done, but forward into time with my heart keeping hopeful with its beating for there to be more time to know her better, to hear again her voice. It sits well with my soul. -m
@kaylajohnson7336 жыл бұрын
💞💪🙏💞
@vedantsridhar83783 жыл бұрын
The only time I'm very happy to analyze a poem for school
@Gloriarunning9 жыл бұрын
What an amazing beautiful picture her words paint so effortlessly.
@lynettebeckles24608 жыл бұрын
REMARKABLE WOMAN! ALWAYS REMEMBERED AND CHERISHED.
@user-jq3pd4ty5e7 жыл бұрын
I could hear her speak forever.
@user-mj8nf2vp7q8 жыл бұрын
The phenomenal...Maya Angelou! She still inspires me. I must read her books every few months, for added inspiration.
@emoshee506 жыл бұрын
I missed out on her while she was alive!! what a loss but this video, she is so wonderful, so beautiful and I need to hear, read more!
@KCNwokoye9 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir for sharing. God bless you!
@laurabartoletti64122 жыл бұрын
Maya Angelou- my Shero , forever !! Rest In Laughter, Rest In Love, Rest In Peace, Rest In All !! 🌸💙
@vedantsridhar83783 жыл бұрын
She is literally what her surname is, an angel!
@gnomeoharangakill83029 жыл бұрын
so BEAUTIFUL! Thank you Maya Angelou
@carleu9 жыл бұрын
Ms. Angelou is truly missed...
@alieantoine9 ай бұрын
Wow was so amazing to watch.
@nkosanakunene15169 жыл бұрын
Wow...What a beautiful soul....
@Jovi226-z1r Жыл бұрын
Powerful... Dr. Angelou Chose Not To Cross The Tracks Was Very Humbling, Inspiring, & Just Pure Class ...🎉
@GuguShezi9 жыл бұрын
Thank you - so touching
@mimisalazar31335 жыл бұрын
Dr. Angelou s family are very blessed to have these trinkets of memories available, thus she will always be with them & us, the public. She was a phenomenal woman indeed!
@jasminecampbell35975 жыл бұрын
I love her. Always and forever.
@syckindahead8 жыл бұрын
by and by things are going to get better
@sahvaren7 жыл бұрын
syckindahead the biggest thing i took from this video!
@pamelaharris19346 жыл бұрын
syckindahead amen
@marionjoycrippsdickerson49526 жыл бұрын
I love taking in knowledge of this phenomenal woman 👩 my goal is to follow in her footsteps I too am a phenomenal human being Maya DeAngelo gave me strength...Novelist and Poet Who’s Buried in Grandmother’s Garden? Marion Joy
@fredgarvinMP5 жыл бұрын
This made me a Maya Angelou fan.
@sahvaren7 жыл бұрын
My forever queen
@meaux88 жыл бұрын
All of the 5 people that gave this a thumbs down, I hope you go thru what Dr. Maya Angelou went thru in early childhood 10 FOLD, some nerve of you cold heartless heathens ~ Dr. Angelou you are Loved All over this Earth ~
@chickennugget62336 жыл бұрын
Why would you wish that on someone?
@bowed3053 жыл бұрын
Your comment doesn't seem to follow in the spirit of Dr. Angelou's way of thinking and living.
@vedantsridhar83783 жыл бұрын
@@bowed305 true
@vedantsridhar83782 жыл бұрын
Well if you wanna be like Maya Angelou.....even if the haters were harsh at her I don't think she would wish something mean to them like you did. Yes, it really is sad there are haters, but if you aspire to be like Angelou, don't be so harsh to them
@wordscapes569028 күн бұрын
@@bowed305That sounds like a bigot’s defense of the indefensible.
@Poemsapennyeach Жыл бұрын
2ND time watching this. Got even more from it. What a woman lovely MAYA...alas..I have to say now, was. But she left us the gift of her genius.
@robinhartman62754 жыл бұрын
A beautiful, talented amazing, incredibly intelligent human being. I wish I could of met her. What joy that would have been! I love listening to her stories. Her poet’s voice is so calming and very melodic. Maya knew how to live life well. Including her divine spiritual gifts. I would call her sister . God bless
@MjF809 Жыл бұрын
Dr. Angelou is an incredible human being....and inspires my humanity
@briangomez91195 жыл бұрын
I never knew He was from Marshall, TX. I feel inspired now
@bowed3053 жыл бұрын
Bill was from Marshall, TX. She was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. He was pointing out that they were raised at the same time very near to one another in small southern towns, but not the same small southern town.
@SumanaTKCyrah3 жыл бұрын
I under stand what she's saying O so very well.
@DoctorCarrieHall2 күн бұрын
I'm watching from Tulsa Oklahoma. I'm a published author.
@dustfreequeen51513 жыл бұрын
❤🙏🏽
@tionnecarson37297 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if her grandmother‘s store is still there??
@kaylajohnson7336 жыл бұрын
Tionne Carson I would like to know that also
@user-tq1mm8gh9e6 жыл бұрын
@@kaylajohnson733 Any success??
@marionjoycrippsdickerson49526 жыл бұрын
To think she knows a little butterfly 🦋 like me/ sweetheart I love ya 🌈🌈🌈🌥🌥🌈🌈🌥☁️☁️☁️☁️🌈
@niecybaker73886 жыл бұрын
2019 are BLACK QUEEN 4 ever
@MyJwiz11 ай бұрын
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
@kaylajohnson7336 жыл бұрын
💞🙏😘😘💪😇💞
@bertramdavis71205 жыл бұрын
Oh Lord how long must we endure this hateful world?!!
@vedantsridhar83783 жыл бұрын
Hi Bertram Davis Did you know I'm going to go to a restaurant tonight and party with my friends?