Maya Angelou reads Life Doesn't Frighten Me
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. She grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. She was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. She was best known for her autobiographical books: Mom & Me & Mom (Random House, 2013); Letter to My Daughter (2008); All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); The Heart of a Woman (1981); Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976); Gather Together in My Name (1974); and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award.
Among her volumes of poetry are A Brave and Startling Truth (Random House, 1995); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); and Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 1959, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Angelou became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. From 1961 to 1962 she was associate editor of The Arab Observer in Cairo, Egypt, the only English-language news weekly in the Middle East, and from 1964 to 1966 she was feature editor of the African Review in Accra, Ghana. She returned to the United States in 1974 and was appointed by Gerald Ford to the Bicentennial Commission and later by Jimmy Carter to the Commission for International Woman of the Year. She accepted a lifetime appointment in 1982 as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1993, Angelou wrote and delivered a poem, “On The Pulse of the Morning," at the inauguration for President Bill Clinton at his request. In 2000, she received the National Medal of Arts, and in 2010 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
The first black woman director in Hollywood, Angelou wrote, produced, directed, and starred in productions for stage, film, and television. In 1971, she wrote the original screenplay and musical score for the film Georgia, Georgia, and was both author and executive producer of a five-part television miniseries “Three Way Choice.” She also wrote and produced several prize-winning documentaries, including “Afro-Americans in the Arts," a PBS special for which she received the Golden Eagle Award. Angelou was twice nominated for a Tony award for acting: once for her Broadway debut in Look Away (1973), and again for her performance in Roots (1977).
Angelou died on May 28, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had served as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University since 1982. She was eighty-six.
“I can walk the ocean floor and never have to breathe” damn those words are hypnotizing and impactful all at the same time legends never die 💯
I did this poem at school today it was so good❤
Her voice is so unique! She was a great poet. I mean, REALLY great poet!!!
Words are an AMAZING power. Speech, even more so. Combined, it's celestial. ❤
I'm going to recite this to my daughter.
i had to read this for English class and i enjoyed it. Good job.
Same
Same
Same!
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I love to listen her recite poetry
RIP you live to a old age you made people smile so RIP
amazing poem maya angeleaou the best poet.
wow learned about this woman in school today best voice ever she is soo cool!
Beautiful women ,beautiful soul ..Rip Maya Angelou .
It makes me cry every time.Every time. RIP Maya. RIP.
love this poem no matter what
I’m here from school. RIP QUEEN
Clearly not in a state like Florida where this level of enlightenment achieved through education is BANNED. I grew up lucky in America too. I call it luck because we're only guaranteed the ideology of a right to think education can make us think for ourselves in certain states now. I'm only 37. How will the world be when I'm 67? Smh.
My favorite poem writer
RIP you are the best
... in fact, life comforts me ~
If I'm afraid at all it's only in my dreams, beautifully said.
I’m here from a school assignment
same lol
@Sabrina Baron same
Me too
@Sunny’s Trashy Life that’s awesome! how was the play?
@Sunny’s Trashy Life ohh 😭
I love your poem
I love maya angeleaou she is the best and i love her
Thank you dear sister ❤
Happy birthday & RIP Maya A
so good
The one and only Maya Angelou!!!
Rege Jean Page was holding this book in a photo and so I was interested to hear the poem. I really enjoyed it. Maya Angelo was so very talented!!
I have loved Maya's work for years and I am here today because of Rege's photo. This is great poem. Maya's poem Phenomenal Woman is awesome. Yes, she was very talented.
Feel the fear and do it anyway ❤
Exactly…. Facing our fears…
For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of a sound mind.
@@Trexset0323 amen and amen 🙏🏾
i read this at english class :)
Sayori Doki same loll
Same
Same
Same 😂
nice poem.
so beautiful
Mama Maya Angelou♥️ love you always♥️
This is lovely RIP 🕊
I love you were doing choral reading contest i only foundout about you now and ur my idol u have an amazing soul the first time i heard it i fell in love with the poem i love u so much
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn't frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn't frighten me at all
Mean old Mother Goose
Lions on the loose
They don't frighten me at all
Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all.
I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won't cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Life doesn't frighten me at all.
Tough guys fight
All alone at night
Life doesn't frighten me at all.
Panthers in the park
Strangers in the dark
No, they don't frighten me at all.
That new classroom where
Boys all pull my hair
(Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls)
They don't frighten me at all.
Don't show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my scream,
If I'm afraid at all
It's only in my dreams.
I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Life doesn't frighten me at all
Not at all
Not at all.
Life doesn't frighten me at all.
rest in peace.
she inspires me because both of are names are maya spelled same way
yass SIRRRRRRR!!
EVERYONE PLS HUT upppp!
I said this poem at school and we had to remember it. We performed it in front our school young grade and forth and 5th im in 5th btw. I stood right in the front. Now I'm doing a report on her.
What was your prom
R.I.P maya
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Pretty good
R.I.P Maya Angelou
She's so beautiful I don't really know what actually happened to her so... R.I.P.
Life it doesn't me at all ❤️❤️❤️
Rip my Angeles ❤️
I have to do this in class
I'm reading this for literature quite true.
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thank you for the idea i'm about to win in my debate copitition thank you again
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dont show me frogs and snakes nd listen for my scream if am scared its only in my dreams...much love Maya R.I.P
cool thanks i needed that for a test
My teacher made me watch 😊
Really
Here for a school assignment
Listening 01.24.22. SDS
I have to read this awesome poem for my forth grade black history month project
Damn ur in 10th grade now😔
School Work Getting In My Way. Almost got my first Gulag win in warzone.
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i likey
Life doesn't frightening me at all
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Why can't I find a woman like this
Anyone doing this for school
Me
this is in parcc testing
That is nice. Did Maya angelou actually sing it live?!
Mrs. Virginia she read this
Arron Thom
Arron Thomas
I read this in english class to
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m teacher made me watch this
HUT UP PLS everyoe hut up
Here for a ela hw assigment
by the way me idris an dmuhammed are in the same class
JUST SHUT UP
WHY IS MY WHOLE CLASS IN THIS COMMENT SECTION
Whose here from mrs.Butcher class
Araija Dacosta me :)
make me
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PLS HUT UP
Stop fighting
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol my classmates be like:
اشونااتتاا
im calling cap on that one
@Tarun Yamarthy lol
Momo
THIS woman is scared of everthing
Keep quit amin
I can say the same amine
HUT UP HUT UP HUT UP
coranten sucs
I’m scared of my dreams liar
NO one comment again!
I don't get it...
@@Trexset0323 me and my frelnds watchdd this in school and trolled
Liars
dont show me frogs and snakes nd listen for my scream if am scared its only in my dreams...much love Maya R.I.P
Lona Tshotsho Ive got a magic charm that I keep up my sleeve i can walk the ocean floor and never have to breath life doesnt frighten me at all not at all not at all life doesn't frighten me at all....😃 I had to memorize it at school
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