Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou wasfound dead in her Winston-Salem, N.C., home
Wednesday morning. She was 86. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Jones confirmed
Angelou's death to Fox News. Police reportedly
were at her home investigating.
Some of her writings have had profound impact on people all over the world. Check out some of his quotes and poems.
SUCCESS IS LIKING YOURSELF,LIKING
WHAT YOU DO AND LIKING HOW U
DO IT
MAYA ANGELOU(1928-2014)
ANOTHER OF HER QUOTE:
YOU MAY ENCOUNTER DEFEAT BUT YOU SHOULD NEVER BE DEFEATED
ANOTHER GOOD QUOTE FROM HER:
A WOMAN'S HEART SHOULD BE SO HIDDEN IN GOD THAT A MAN HAS TO SEEK HIM JUST TO FIND HER
Here is one of her poems.
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread 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 back yard.
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.
Maya Angelou
Inspiring
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