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An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright,...
- Phenomenal Woman
An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and...
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Still I Rise. Maya Angelou A Center. Ha Jin “Hope” is the...
- Maya Angelou
An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and...
- Phenomenal Woman
‘Still I Rise‘ by Maya Angelou (Bio | Poems) is an inspiring and moving poem that celebrates self-love and self-acceptance. The poem takes the reader through a series of statements the speaker makes about herself.
Still I Rise - Discover the meaning behind Maya Angelou's inspiring poem, with an audio recording of actress Rosie Perez reading this classic work, which has been celebrated by Serena Williams, Cory Booker, and other public figures.
From Angelou’s collection And Still I Rise (1978). This poem is a response to society’s attitudes from black women. As Zora Neale Hurston another, black author, said in Their Eyes Were ...
10 Jun 2014 · (Final poem from 'Maya Angelou - Live and Unplugged')Still I RiseYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very d...
“Still I Rise” is a poem by the American civil rights activist and writer Maya Angelou. One of Angelou's most acclaimed works, the poem was published in Angelou’s third poetry collection And Still I Rise in 1978.
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.
