"A Brave and Startling Truth": Maya Angelou's Full Poem
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2014
- Reynolds Professor of American Studies and renowned poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou recites a an original poem she crafted for the Lay My Burden Down Civil War Conference in Winston-Salem.
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Toast to one of the Most Beautiful Souls in the World, My Inspiration. Thanks for the information.
Cheers🥂
Yes, she's been my inspiration since middle school
Thank you, mama Maya. I was feeling sorry for myself today and you restored me to gratitude and dignity. Love you endlessly.
Yes, I thank you as well, Mother Maya.
Requiescat in Pace.
You will be remembered always.
~ Michael
How blessed we are to still receive these powerful words from our beloved Dr.Maya ... 🙏🏼🇨🇦Namasta ...
AMEN FOR THAT. I CAN'T BELIEVE I NEVER HEARD HER POEM. AS I'M BIG ON LIVING WITH SOME VERY INSPIRING QUOTES. ALL MY LIFE SUCH AN AMAZING WOMAN OH MY. THAT LAUGH TO POEM SO HIT HOME. 💕💯
A rainbow she still remains..a beautiful aura in each word she uttered, written and prophesied.
surely "we are the possible and true wonder of the world only when we come to it"
I am going to be a rainbow and I will remain a rainbow 😍😍
Her voice were very unique and magical
I love Mya Angelou May she rest in peace
An inspiration and blessing to everyone in the world who opens their ears and heart to her words and her take on humanity.❤
You are my rainbow, my Mama. Thankyou for that.
Rest in Peace. I thank God for allowing you to share your light for teaching, guiding all of us no matter where we come from. You were blind to different nationalities you were like a mother to many of us, regardless of what part of the world we came from. You are missed by many of your adopted sons, and daughters to this day may we keep your light burning for us and our children generation, after generation. You were one of my mentor I thank God for you. REST IN PEACE.
Thank you for being here Ms. Angelou.
Maya Angelou 4 me has one of ...The MOST APPOINTED...poetic SOUNDs...N🌞W... 2 Have A “Courageous” sound of POETRY...I haven’t ever heard Anyone deliver “Words” with such Potent Thought as She Aged she Still have RISEN above!
Maya brings people to God in her own way. She helps you to see him in her life. How can you not love her? I could follow her around, i could sit by her feet and listen all the day long. I see rainbows differently. She puts so much positivity in everything. When I see a rainbow now, it will be Maya I will see. She is a phenomenal woman. She is a part of my collection of jewels that is in my sacred box.
I love her spirit.
Thanks for the inspiration, Dr. Angelou. I will be a rainbow in someone's cloud in the future. With all due respect to a spiritual dynamo
Maya Angelou is my rainbow . This morning I was lead mysteriously to this video. She touched my heart and soul . I will begin my day a little stronger . It's amazing how it feels like she speaks to you as if she knows exactly what you need to hear.
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we learn
A brave and startling truth
And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool our palms
When we come to it
When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate
And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean
When battlefields and coliseum
No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters
Up with the bruised and bloody grass
To lie in identical plots in foreign soil
When the rapacious storming of the churches
The screaming racket in the temples have ceased
When the pennants are waving gaily
When the banners of the world tremble
Stoutly in the good, clean breeze
When we come to it
When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders
And children dress their dolls in flags of truce
When land mines of death have been removed
And the aged can walk into evenings of peace
When religious ritual is not perfumed
By the incense of burning flesh
And childhood dreams are not kicked awake
By nightmares of abuse
When we come to it
Then we will confess that not the Pyramids
With their stones set in mysterious perfection
Nor the Gardens of Babylon
Hanging as eternal beauty
In our collective memory
Not the Grand Canyon
Kindled into delicious color
By Western sunsets
Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe
Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji
Stretching to the Rising Sun
Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,
Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores
These are not the only wonders of the world
When we come to it
We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe
Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger
Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace
We, this people on this mote of matter
In whose mouths abide cankerous words
Which challenge our very existence
Yet out of those same mouths
Come songs of such exquisite sweetness
That the heart falters in its labor
And the body is quieted into awe
We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines
When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear
When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.
Maya Angelou
WOW...that's when we come to it. We are neither devils or divines
Thank you, Mary.
Wow, she said it perfectly. Thank you for posting this one. I believe I am going to start reading all she has written. What an inspiration.
Her heart for ALL PPL will never cease. Her story of her challenging life will inspire forever.💜💖
Always be kind, love to all
That's my beautiful mother 🌹
So beautiful so true
Thank you
Even though Maya Angelou was mute when she was a child, her grandmother told her it didn't matter, that 'when you and the Good Lord get ready, you're gonna teach all over the world'. She was one of Maya's rainbows. Maya was a 28/10/1 life path Pioneer in numerology, here to heal her root (1st) chakra and create new safety on Earth. At 28, her life path turning point, she had her own show and album and was about to do her first film. WOW.
They say 'good girls go to Heaven, bad girls go everywhere'. I know which side I'm gonna choose. I love Maya! Be someone's rainbow today, even your own...Be your own fairy godmother...Take yourself to happiness instead of waiting to be 'chosen'. That's an illusion that will see you waste your life in the shade. The more you speak up, the more life shows up. Love, Sarah and the 11:11 Angels
"Be a rainbow" to somebody , Beautiful POEM from a Delightful Woman, a Gift to the world.
Love her! ❤️
❤️ My inspiration.
Lucena Além
How’s this
You could write the night, but we will write the moon. If you put us in jail, we would jump over the walls and still write.
If you would lodge an FIR against us, we are all set to write about the injustice we are suffering from. If you murder us, we will come as the ghosts and still write. We will write mentioning the proofs unveiling the murders you have committed.
You may enjoy jokes sitting in the courts, But we will ink the walls, and roads about justice we need. We will speak loud enough so even hearing-impaired ones could hear us
We will write clear enough so that blind ones could read it. You could symbolize the black rose, but we will write about the red rose
you would oppress us on earth, in the afterlife the just will be done.
We will remember everything. We will not forget it at all. The dearest friends of mine who you murdered with lathis (or sticks) & bullets; In the remembrance of them, we will keep our hearts broken-down.
We will remember everything. We will remember it all. You will ink down lies, we know it well. May be with our blood, but plainly the truth will be written and published someday.
By blocking public access to telephones, internet and other conveniences of communication in broad daylight; And then confining the entire city as prisoners in the cold night; Suddenly intrude in my home, and devastate my small life; Murdering my ‘darling child’ in the middle of the road; And then without bothering about anything that happened, you smiling in the bunch of people; We will remember it. We will remember it
You talk sweet during the day; and then assuring in public that everything is at the place and under control with a stuttering tone. Oppressing and attacking the people at night, who are asking for their rights; Attacking us and blaming us for being the attackers, it all will be remembered
I will carve these incidents of cruelty on my bones. You are asking me for the documents of my identity. I will surely provide your the proof of my existence (or identity.) This war will be fought till your last breath, and all shall be remembered
It will also be remembered how you attempted to disunite (or split) the country. Our attempts & desire to reunite the country shall also be remembered. And whenever it is spoken about ‘Cowardice,’ your deeds shall be the ones to give examples of.
And also whenever it will be spoken about the ways of life; Our names shall be mentioned. It will be mentioned that there were some people with strong motives, people whose principles were unbreakable even when they were tried to break with hammers. Some people didn’t give up and never got sold, as you are.
Some people stood in impossible situations. Some people were alive even after hearing the news of their death.
The eyes may forget to blink; The earth may forget to revolve at its right position; But the successful attempts of snatching our liberty; The echoes of oppressiveness shall always be kept in mind
OMG, this woman!
Maya Angelou In Touched By An Angel
Such a Uplifing Spirited Woman .
I love listening to her speeches.
I love the sound of her voice and her accent :)
👏🏽 I love being a rainbow in someone else’s cloud because we all have had enough rain 🌧️
Beautiful! x
I Love You my sister, my mother of faith, my queen, my heart! I honor you in my soul, and keep going laughing of my sorrows, having proud of who I am, little by little relieving myself in expressing freedom in a world stucked in lies! ❤️
Be the light is somebody's darkness
Touched my heart....I feel like to cry
I adore her so much 💖
🙏❤️ Blessings!!
A rainbow in my cloud. Long live Dr.Maya❤
Thank You! 🖤
I admire her so much!!
I love the story of how her Grandmother 'saw' her future.........intuition is being suppressed because thats how we can tell if a person is good or not.
Real talk
I Am Child Of God I Am Love ❤️ I Am Beautiful I Am Wonderful I Am Kind I Am In Peace I Am Smart I Am Sweet I Am Strong I Am Good Singer I Am Great Dancer I Am faithful I Am bold I Am Truthful I Am healthy/ heal
Beautiful ❤
what a beautiful person
My forever rainbow 🌈💕
I love this woman
I love you!
Representing who are you representing when in front of others we become a legacy ones we are adults we used that legacy to create our life's words that were spoken into our soul what legacy are you creating on others to create or destroy one must choose. 👩
what an inspiration!
God bless her. 🥹🙏😍🌈🌹🥰
They might not need me--and yet they might.
I'll let my heart be just in sight;
a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
I try to always keep this in mind...
Being someone else's Rainbow cannot help but to cast a Rainbow in your own life as well.
~ Michael
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I am bringing you with me to my interview in a hour***
This Woman!!... #bornfree
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Amen Hallelujah Amen 🙏 Glory To God Praise To God Stay safe and Strong
1 Love ❤️
2 Joy
3 Peace ✌️
4 Patient
5 Kindness
6 Goodness
7 Faithfulness
8 Gentleness
9 Self Control
10 Never Give Up
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And to think that Maya Angelou's America in 2022 now worships trained killers more than ever and calls them 'hero" and honors them above all others. Humans remain a very long way from her wonderful and heartfelt plea. Until there are no countries, no races, no religions and no militaries, there can be no future for humanity.
You have no idea how much you matter.
I Love ❤️ you Never Give Up Don’t Be Move What’s you See Don’t Be Move What You Hear We’re Gonna See Revival Thank You 🙏 Maya God Bless You Happy Tuesday everyone Have a blessed day You Are Not Alone God And Jesus Is With You You Are Loved ❤️💚🙏💕
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That's Grandmother
When I look in the mirror, I see a rainbow 🌈
I wonder what this great human would have to say about BLM
God put a rainbow in my cloud💕
Tomorrow is Kind day Keep On Moving Farword Don’t Move Back God Have a plan for you like He have a plan for me We Are here for you praying 🙏 for you your family and friends
Okay
4:30 When EVERY
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Sometimes the establishement is as tempor ARY AS tHE cLINTONS AND tHE bUSHES.. nOTICE THE DISRESPECT OF BOTH FAMILIES AS I WRITE
Well, hello. I have a new favie person I need to now know everything about. O_O.
God, put a rainbow in the sky as a sign of the covenant between God and the earth. That He will not destroy the earth because of sin with water again, but, fire next time. That's in Genesis 9:13.
Wow what a promise. I won't drown you guys next time-I will burn you alive. Love ya! -God.
@@theonejokeking3191 that definitely can't be the Almighty God speaking.....that's one of the idiotic concepts in religion.
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Dr Angelou deserved to have been resting and living in luxury long time ago
The absolute master of language and relentless belief in the common goodness of all people. Great as she was, though, the deep flaw of religion and worship of gods poisoned her like so many. No dreams of a united world can even be conceived while fights over gods persist. Just as the swords and daggers must be set aside, so too must the delusional and petty and ultimately useless devotions to gods and the wars in their names.
When an artist starts dropping names of politicians and organisations, its paining to endure and one cant help but wonder how much of their work has picked up the stain of rubbing shoulders with the establishment.
It takes a strong person to be able to be among the so called famous and important people in Society, and to not allow the circumstances or situations surrounding them to interfere with who they are and in what they believe. It can be done because once you identify with who's you are and who you are because of God, then you will arise above the identity of the world and "BE" who God Purposed you to be. It takes a Strong Will and a made up mind to remain in the "True God Give Identity " that has been assigned to you and only you. Jesus Christ was our example, for no matter what was said and done, He stayed Focused upon His call and His purpose even until His death and His Resurrection from the Dead. Know your Purpose and stick with it, for it is God Vision concerning you.
Amazingly enough some people don’t change just because they rub shoulders with “the establishment”.
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