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Black History Month - Celebrates Maya Angelou ~ February 2012
"An Out Look on Greatness"
After much thought as to how to properly end “ Black History Month “.......on a note of POSITIVE HEALING POWER. It is of great importance that we continue to strive for excellence and persevere in a time when so much has been bestowed upon us by those who have paved the way for equality and justice for ALL MANKIND. When I think of FREEDOM, COURAGE, TRUTH and KNOWLEDGE, I think of a trail blazer, I think of none other than, Maya Angelou. In the SPIRIT of redemption, the glory of FAITH and in the purpose of TRUTH, Maya has given us over eight decades of being a true LEADER, educator, speaker and a COMMANDER who has been leading the forefront of BLACK HISTORY. It is through these angelic eyes that we must continue to SERVE as soldiers, RISE as a people and LEARN as a nation....the importance of UNDERSTANDING the global importance of ACCEPTANCE, TOLERANCE and above all else.....LOVE. LOVE as one KIND....one BEING....one PERSPECTIVE..one sky NO LIMIT !
WE are ALL of ONE !
Let this serve as a vision of NOT ONLY the month of February but every MINUTE of every DAY of every YEAR of every DECADE of every MILLENNIUM of every LIFETIME.
BLESS you Maya Angelou and thank you for all of your WISDOM and GREATNESS!
The Biography: HW Black History Month: Maya Angelou
Posted on February 26, 2010
Maya Angelou born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928 is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called “America’s most visible black female autobiographer” by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences. The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. Angelou has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30 honorary degrees and the nomination of a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie.
Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Since 1991, Angelou has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as recipient of the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. Since the 1990s she has made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit. In 1993, she recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. In 1995, she was recognized for having the longest-running record (two years) on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List.
With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou was heralded as a new kind of memoirist, one of the first African American women who was able to publicly discuss her personal life. She became recognized and highly respected as a spokesperson for black people and women. Angelou’s work is often characterized as autobiographical fiction.[5] Angelou has, however, made a deliberate attempt through her work to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the genre. Her books, centered on themes such as identity, family, and racism, are often used as set texts in schools and universities internationally. Some of her more controversial work has been challenged or banned in US schools and libraries.
Marguerite Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. Her father, Bailey Johnson, was a doorman and navy dietitian, and her mother Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, was a real estate agent, trained surgical nurse, and later, a merchant marine. Angelou’s older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite “Maya”, shortened from “my-a-sister”. The details of Angelou’s life, although described in her six autobiographies and in numerous interviews, speeches, and articles, tend to be inconsistent. Her biographer, Mary Jane Lupton, when speaking about these inconsistencies, has explained that when Angelou has spoken about her life, she has done so eloquently but informally and “with no time chart in front of her”.
Evidence suggests that Angelou’s family is descended from the Mende people of West Africa. A 2008 PBS documentary found that her maternal great-grandmother, Mary Lee, had been emancipated after the Civil War. The documentary suggested that Lee became pregnant by her former white owner, John Savin, who forced Lee to sign a false statement accusing another man of being the father of her child. A grand jury indicted Savin for forcing Lee to commit perjury, and despite discovering that Savin was the father, found him not guilty. Lee was sent to the Clinton County poorhouse in (Missouri) with her daughter, Marguerite Baxter, who became Angelou’s grandmother. Angelou described Lee as “that poor little black girl, physically and mentally bruised”.
William Shakespeare, who had influence on Angelou’s early life and writings. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou states that she “met and fell in love with” Shakespeare as a child.
The first 17 years of Angelou’s life are documented in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. When Angelou was three, and her brother four, their parents’ “calamitous marriage” ended. Their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas alone, by train, to live with his mother, Annie Henderson.[11] Henderson prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because “she made wise and honest investments”. Four years later, the children’s father “came to Stamps without warning” and returned them to their mother’s care in St. Louis. At age eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. She confessed it to her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty, but was jailed for one day. Four days after his release, he was found kicked to death, probably by Angelou’s uncles. Angelou became mute, believing, as she has stated, “I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone…” She remained nearly mute for five years. Shortly after Freeman’s murder, Angelou and her brother were sent back to their grandmother once again.
Angelou credits a teacher and friend of Angelou’s family, a Mrs. Bertha Flowers, with helping her speak again. Flowers introduced her to authors such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Fauset. When Angelou was 13, she and her brother returned to live with her mother in San Francisco. During World War II, she attended George Washington High School and studied dance and drama on a scholarship at the California Labor School. Before graduating, she worked as the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Three weeks after completing school, she gave birth to her son, Clyde, who also became a poet. At the end of Angelou’s third autobiography, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, her son changed his name to “Guy Johnson”.
Angelou’s second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, recounts her life from age 17 to 19. This book “depicts a single mother’s slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime,”, Angelou at times working as a prostitute and as the madame of a brothel. The book describes how she moved through a series of relationships, occupations, and cities as she attempted to raise her son without job training or advanced education.
Adulthood and early career
Angelou has been married three times or more (something she has never clarified, “for fear of sounding frivolous”
. In her third autobiography, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, Angelou describes her three-year marriage to Greek sailor Tosh Angelos in 1949. Up to that point, she went by the name of “Marguerite Johnson”, or “Rita”, but changed her professional name to “Maya Angelou” when her managers at San Francisco nightclub The Purple Onion strongly suggested that she adopt a more theatrical name that captured the feel of her Calypso dance performances. She won a scholarship and trained in African dance by Trinidadian dancer Pearl Primus, in 1952. During 1954 and 1955 Angelou toured through Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She begun her practice of trying to learn the language of every country she visited, and in a few years she gained proficiencies in several languages. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, and co-created the dance team, “Al and Rita” with choreographer Alvin Ailey, combining elements of modern dance, ballet, and West African dance. In 1957, Angelou recorded her first album, Miss Calypso.In the late 1950s, Angelou joined the Harlem Writers Guild, where she met a number of major African American authors, including James Baldwin, who would go on to become her close friend and mentor. After hearing civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak for the first time in 1960, she joined the Civil Rights movement, going on to organize on their behalf, and becoming Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. During the early 1960s, Angelou briefly lived with South African activist Vusumzi Make; she moved with him and her son Guy to Cairo, Egypt, where she became an associate editor at the weekly newspaper The Arab Observer. In 1962, her relationship with Make ended, and she and Guy moved to Ghana. She became an assistant administrator and instructor at the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama, was a feature editor for The African Review, acted in and wrote plays.
In Ghana, Angelou became close friends with Malcolm X and returned to the US in 1964 to help him build a new civil rights organization, the Organization of African American Unity; he was assassinated shortly afterward. In 1968, King asked her to organize a march, but he too was assassinated, on her birthday (April 4). Instead of celebrating her birthday, she sent flowers to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, until King’s death in 2006. Inspired by a meeting with her friend James Baldwin, Angelou dealt with her grief at King’s assassination in 1968 by writing her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969, which brought her first international recognition and acclaim.
Later career
In 1973, Angelou married Paul du Feu, a British-born carpenter and remodeler, and moved to Sonoma, California with him. The years to follow were some of Angelou’s most productive years as a writer and poet. She worked as a composer, including writing for singer Roberta Flack, and composed movie scores. She wrote articles, short stories, TV scripts, autobiographies and poetry, produced plays, and spoke on the university lecture circuit. In 1977 Angelou appeared in a supporting role in the television mini-series Roots. Her screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a black woman to be produced. In the late ’70s, Angelou met Oprah Winfrey when Winfrey was a TV anchor in Baltimore, Maryland; Angelou would later become Winfrey’s close friend and mentor. Angelou divorced de Feu and returned to the southern United States in 1981, where she accepted the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
In 1993, she recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. Since the 1990s, Angelou has actively participated in the lecture circuit.
Maya Angelou reciting her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993
Angelou campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential primaries, giving her public support to Senator Hillary Clinton. In the run up to the January Democratic primary in South Carolina, the Clinton campaign ran ads featuring Angelou’s endorsement. The ads were part of the campaign’s efforts to rally support in the black community; but Obama won the South Carolina primary; finishing 29 points ahead of Clinton and taking 80% of the black vote. When Clinton’s campaign ended, Angelou put her support behind Senator Barack Obama. When Obama won the election and became the first African American president of the United States, she stated, “We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism”. In 2009, Angelou campaigned for the same-sex marriage bill in New York state.
At the age of seventy, Angelou was the first African American woman to direct a major motion picture, Down in the Delta, in 1998.
Michael Jackson Poem recited by Maya Angelou
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" We Had Him " A Poem by Maya Angelou for Michael Jackson
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing,
now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind.
Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace.
Sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the moon.
In the instant that Michael is gone, we know nothing. No clocks can tell time.
No oceans can rush our tides with the abrupt absence of our treasure.
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style.
We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
We had him, beautiful, delighting our eyes.
His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us.
And we laughed and stomped our feet for him.
We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing. He gave us all he had been given.
Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana's Black Star Square.
In Johannesburg and Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham, England
We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.
“Go and Hug Your Michael Today” By Maya Angelou for Michael Jackson
Yesterday I cried watching the Michael Jackson memorial. I cried for a little
black boy who felt the world didn’t understand him. I cried for a little black
boy who spent his adulthood chasing his childhood. And I thought about all the
young black boys out there who may too feel that the world doesn’t understand
them. The ones who feel that the world does not understand their baggy jeans,
their swagger, their music, their anger, their struggles, their fears or the
chip on their shoulder. I worry that my son, may too, one day will feel lonely
in a wide, wide world.
I cried for the young children of all colors who may live their life feeling
like a misfit, feeling like no one understands their perspective, or their soul.
What a burden to carry.
As a mother, I cried for Katherine Jackson because no mother should ever bury a
child. Period. And I think about all the pain, tears and sleepless nights that
she must have endured seeing her baby boy in inner pain, seeing him struggle
with his self-esteem, and his insecurities and to know he often felt unloved
even while the world loved him deeply. How does it feel to think that the
unconditional love we give as mothers just isn’t enough to make our children
feel whole? I wonder if she still suffers thinking, “what more could I have
done?” Even moms of music legends aren’t immune to mommy guilt, I suppose.
When Rev. Al Sharpton (”who always delivers one” awesome “funeral speech”
saidto Michael’s children, “Your daddy was not strange…It was strange what your
Daddy had to deal with,” I thought of all the “strange” things of the world that
my children will have to deal with. Better yet, the things I hope they won’t
ever have to deal with anymore.
And as a mother raising a young black boy, I feel recommitted and yet a little
confused as to how to make sure my son is sure enough within himself to take on
the world. Especially a “strange” one. To love himself enough to know that even
when the world doesn’t understand you, tries to force you into its mold or
treats you unkindly, you are still beautiful, strong and Black. How do I do
that?
Today, I am taking back “childhood” as an inalienable right for every brown
little one. In a world, that makes children into booty-shaking, mini-adults long
before their time, I’m reclaiming the playful, innocent, run-around-outside,
childhood as the key ingredient in raising confident adults. Second, I will not
rest until my little black boy, MY Michael, knows that his broad nose is
beautiful, his chocolately brown skin is beautiful, and his thick hair is
beautiful.
And nothing or no one can ever take that away from him.
“Now aint we bad? And ain’t we black? And ain’t we fine !!
Maya Gets her Michael Jackson "Dot" in Style
Maya Angelou - Poet/Playwright/Author/Activist :
Regarding how she feels Michael Jackson would react to The Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait:
"I think he would be delighted..
I think he would feel humbled…
I think he would be humbly over the moon."
Dr. Maya Angelou gets her dot on June 21, 2010. At this special ceremony, Dr. Angelou also read for us, for the first time in public,
her poem "We Had Him", written for Michael Jackson. The first and only public reading of "We Had Him" by Maya Angelou then receives her dot in the Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait.
(Youtube Video above)
The Youtube Videos of Maya's Angelou's Legacy:
Calypso Heat Wave (1957) 2 minute trailer
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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou at the Bill Clinton Inauguration in 1993
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Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou: ICONOCLASTS Season 2
In this episode, comedian Dave Chappelle and poet Maya Angelou spend a day together at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where they discuss how poetry and comedy can bridge both genders and generations.
Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou (ICONOCLASTS - Season 2, Episode 6) (Clip 1)
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Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou (ICONOCLASTS - Season 2, Episode 6) (Clip 2)
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Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou (ICONOCLASTS - Season 2, Episode 6) (Clip 3)
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Maya Angelou's 82nd Birthday Party :
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - MAY 20, 2010:
A general view of atmosphere at poet Dr. Maya Angelou's 82th Garden birthday party with friends and family at Angelou's home on May 20, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Steve Exum/Getty Images) Martina McBride; Naomi Judd, Common; Leslie Sanchez and many others.
Copyright: 2010 Getty Images
Maya Angelou among Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
By: Journal Staff and Wire Report | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: February 16, 2011..WASHINGTON --
President Harry S. Truman established the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945 to recognize civilians for their efforts during World War II. President John F. Kennedy reinstated the medal in 1963 to honor distinguished service.
President Barack Obama recognized a former president and 13 others, including poet Maya Angelou, on Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for contributions to society that he said speak to "who we are as a people."The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. It is given in recognition of contributions to U.S. national security, world peace, culture or other significant public or private endeavors. Tuesday's medals were the second set Obama has awarded.
Maya Angelou remembers a story by Martin Luther King Jr.
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BET Honors 2012 - Dr. Maya Angelou
Dr. Maya Angelou's literary works have inspired generations of women to rise above their circumstance and realize their worth. Watch as she accepts her Literary Arts Award from first lady Michelle Obama.
Maya Angelou Home Following Brief Hospitalization
Maya Angelou Recovering From Illness..02/21/12 12:35 PM ET AP
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Nationally renowned poet Maya Angelou is recovering from a brief illness that forced her to cancel a planned speech in Texas.
Angelou's lecture agent David LaCamera said Tuesday the 83-year-old poet was set to speak on Wednesday but came down with an illness that left her in the hospital for three days.
LaCamera says Angelou is resting at home in Winston-Salem, N.C., and can't travel. He says her doctor told her that she's on the road a lot and has to cool it for a few days.
LaCamera declined to describe the nature of the illness that kept Angelou hospitalized until her release on Saturday and had been scheduled to speak at Texas Women's University in Denton.
The Blog Article:
"The Paul Leslie Hour" with Dr. Maya Angelou Interview (Transcript)
What would you, Dr. Maya Angelou like to say to the world?
I wish you peace. I believe in the heart of every human being, no matter how cantankerous he or she is, or how bellicose, and warlike, I believe in the secret heart, there’s a desire for peace. I believe we can be peacemakers. I believe we can even be peace bringers. We don’t have to wait until we arrive at the destination to make peace. I think we can bring it in our hearts and in our hands with us. I wish you peace and laughter and love.
(To view the complete interview with Dr. Maya follow the Link provided below)
The Photo Gallery:
Maya & Muppet Love
Maya & President Clinton
Maya & Oprah
Maya and Coretta Scott-King
Maya & Bishop Desmond TuTu
Maya & Michelle Obama
Maya Quotes:
~ "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
~ "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
~ "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
~ "Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
~ “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
“ Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya is now 83yrs old and still she RISES !!!
The Sources:
http://www.michaeljacksontributeportrait.com/article.php?article_id=140
http://www.biography.com/people/maya-angelou-9185388
http://harlemworldmag.com/2010/02/26/hw-black-history-month-maya-angelou/
http://www.sundancechannel.com/iconoclasts/profiles/maya-angelou/?video_id=9357932001#video_section
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/201...=1t:429,r:6,s:0&shorturl=http://bit.ly/hof10U
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/maya-angelou-home-hospitalization_n_1291180.html
The I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Blog Site:
http://iknowwhythecagedbirdsings.tumblr.com/
Maya Interview with Paul Leslie Website:
http://thepaulleslie.blogspot.com/2011/01/paul-leslie-it-is-with-great-honor-we.html
Maya's 82nd Birthday Party - Getty Images Website:
http://www.gettyimages.ca/Search/Se...e5Fd50_4_AQAA___WhmQ7YwQAAA..&sx=AllEditorial
Sincerely your
MJJC
Legacy
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