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"A Black person grows up in this country ― and in many places ― knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone." ― #MayaAngelou #BlackHistory

BarbChamberlain

Excerpt from "America" by Maya Angelou

The gold of her promise
has never been mined
Her borders of justice
not clearly defined

Her crops of abundance
the fruit and the grain
Have not fed the hungry
nor eased that deep pain

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#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #America #MayaAngelou #justice #hunger #BlackLivesMatter #patriotism

Maya Angelou - America

The gold of her promise has never been mined Her…

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Mike Nelson Pedde

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own." ~ Maya Angelou

Source: Letter to My Daughter

#quote #MayaAngelou #kindness #RandomActsOfKindness

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"I don’t trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." — #MayaAngelou #BlackHistory

Julé Cunningham

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.
-- 'Woman Work' by Maya Angelou

#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry #MayaAngelou @poetry

Assoc for Scottish Literature

“On the dirt roads of Arkansas I first met Robert Burns…”

Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Dr Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to the home of Robert Burns (originally broadcast in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns’s death):
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs

“Angelou on Burns” is also available on YouTube, if you can’t watch on the iPlayer:
youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh

#Scottish #literature #BurnsNight #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #MayaAngelou

BBC Two - Angelou on Burns

Writer and poet Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to…

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Jan van den Berg

Het is vandaag MLK day in de USA. Schrijfster Maya Angelou leerde het werk van Martin Luther King kennen in 1960. En ze werkte toen een tijdje voor hem. Ze was 32 en had een zoon van 16. En ze had de wereld rondgereisd als onderdeel van een theatergroep. Ze had dus al een leven achter de rug. Toch zou het nog 10 jaar duren voordat ze haar debuut maakte: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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https://janvandenberg.blog/mensen-vergeten-wat-je-zei/

#MayaAngelou #MLK #Quote

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Herbie Raad

Look for the light…
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
#MayaAngelou

Wisdom in Space

I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

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"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." —#MayaAngelou #BlackHistory

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“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
(01/11/22)

#MayaAngelou #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

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'When someone tells you who they are, believe them' --- #MayaAngelou

#fascism #fascistclowns #farright #extrêmedroite #Election2024

#TrumpsEnemyWithinComment ! TAKE IT SERIOUSLY !!!

#AriMelber talks to Scarborough. (I don't like Joe Scarborough either, but you need to watch this!)

#NoTrumpNoKKKNoFascistUSA

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