I seem to have known that a long time and found great joy in it.
Courage is probably the most important of the virtues, because without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues, you can’t say against a murderous society, I oppose your murdering. Learn more about Angelou’s life and works in this article. She is perhaps best known for her autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). But more than likely if you do dare, what you get are the marvelous returns. Maya Angelou, American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression. They may not all be that pleasant, but nobody promised you a rose garden. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences. I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it.
In a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, found in Conversations with Maya Angelou, she reflects on the meaning of life and the most important virtue. Sadly it took her passing for me to look a little deeper. I first came across Angelou because of an odd habit she had: she liked to work in dirty hotel rooms. writing which liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. The legendary poet and writer Maya Angelou passed recently at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She attended George Washington High School and took dance and drama courses at the California Labor School. Prior to the start of World War II, Angelou moved back in with her mother, who at this time was living in Oakland, California.
I rise I rise I rise.“I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it.” When she returned to Arkansas, she took an interest in poetry and memorized works by Shakespeare and Poe. 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. 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. 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.ĭoes my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.ĭid you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?ĭoes 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. This wonderfully self-assertive poem about picking yourself up and striving to achieve, even in the face of adversity, was used for an advertising campaign by the UNCF in the US, but its message of selfhood and determination is one that should be heard by all. Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. 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.ĭoes my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. By Maya Angelou more Maya Angelou I note the obvious differences in the human family.
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