Maya Angelou on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: INTERVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2014
- Dr. Maya Angelou was the special guest for George's New Year's Eve 2013 episode. They talked about her life, career and fascinating encounters with people like Tupac Shakur.
On counseling an angry Tupac Shakur on set of the film "Poetic Justice":
"I said 'When was the last time anyone told you how important you are? Did you know our people stood on auction blocks, were sold, bought and sold so that you could stay alive today?' And finally he heard me and stopped talking and started to weep."
On race in America:
"We are more and more becoming intelligent. I don't mean educated, but we Americans are growing up a little bit and that's a blessing. If we weren't growing up we wouldn't have a Black President in there. Black men and women are heading some of the leading universities in our country and corporations, black men and women. Little by little we grow up. It's hard. Most people don't grow up, they just get older."
On her own mortality:
"It would be wonderful to live as long as I'm going to live, and be present. I want to, what I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be. I have a chance to teach and to love and to laugh. I know that when I'm finished doing what I'm sent here to do, I will be called home and I will go home without any fear - trepidation some, wondering what's going to happen."
On liking country music:
"People decide that if you're black you only like black things, if you're white you only like white things, if you're short you only like short things. That's so stupid. I mean good music is good music."
On being thankful:
"The best thing always about anything is to try to stay in an attitude of gratitude. Be thankful. Just say thank you. Thank you to God if you happen to have the blessing of being a believer. Thank you to friends, thank you to strangers, thankful to people who don't look like you. Thankful to people whose complexion don't jive with your complexion. Just say thank you."
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credits
Book cover - Hachette Books
Maya Angelou and Malcolm X - Alice M Windom
Maya Angelou performing - Library of Congress
"His Day is Done" - US Department of State
Archival photos, segregated South - Library of Congress
Book cover - Bantam Books
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Tomorrow Entertainment
Roots - David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
The Richard Pryor Special? - Burt Sugarman Productions
Kanye West "Hey Mama" - Roc-A-Fella
Oprah Winfrey - OWN, Harpo Inc.
Book Cover - Random House
Clinton Inauguration Footage - Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Poetic Justice - Columbia Pictures Corporation, New Deal Productions, Nickel - บันเทิง
"You maybe the last person I may speak to; life is life and death is death.." Profound.
George, if I may call you George, it has been your privileged to have been in the presence of one of those special people of the human race. It has been our privilege as viewers to have shared in the conversation you had with Maya Angelou and I am sure it will remain in your memory, until you too will reach the same destination the journey of life affords us all.
there's something soothing about her voice
RIP
yes, I agree
RIP Maya. Such a beautiful soul. Watching this makes me a bit emotional. I would had loved to be in her presence.
I know exactly what you mean. Then I started to think I can actually kind of be in her presence, by taking her words to heart a bit more at a time.
I’m watching this now not a day out of high school weeping for the past and scared for the future but coming here has shown me the journey doesn’t end just because you stop but it continues on even when we don’t.So for you Ms.Maya I’m going to be brave. I’m going to live and love in the present and not worry about the stress of tomorrow or bathe in the memories of the past. R.I.P To a phenomenal woman. I love you Ms.Maya
MY heart bleeds because your physical presence on this earth is no more. Yet my soul rejoices because I know that the essence of you will always remain with us. Maya, you are and forever will be a PHENOMENAL woman!
Amazing. If anyone else had spoke to Tupac (Oprah), there would have been cameras and questions and what not. Maya just is. She reached out as an elder to the young angry man and reached him to touch him, not for our entertainment. We each of us has a task, to nurture some wisdom in ourselves because one day we WILL have to pass wisdom on to someone else. She will be missed.
“Tell the truth...to yourself first and to the children. Live in the present don’t deny the past.”
God bless you Dr. Angelou
Yes.yes yes
I can't believe that I was able to get through 12 years of school and too not have learned about this amazing person, I cant wait to learn more about her and her life. A true role model we should all know, not only for her writing but also for her kindness, and willingness to love and teach.
You need to re-release video. It’s amazing and timely. Nothing to lose. 2020
This is a wonderful interview. Great questions and as always beautiful responses from Dr Maya. I was impressed by the interviewers respect and how gentle he is.
It's amazing how Maya commands so much admiration and respect and yet, make people feel comfortable and also too, want to be embraced by her. She's a beautiful human whom I wish I could've met. Thank God and Jesus for sending this wonderful fellow soul!!
Absolutely breath taking to watch and listen her speak. R.I.P. Dr. Maya Angelou, Rest , Rest, Rest
Thank you so much Beyoncé 🙏🏽✨
I am in tears, learning of her death today and hearing this wonderful intimate joyful interview. Thank you George. I'm sure you feel her loss.Mother,Grandmother, teacher, Rest in Joy!
Rest in peace to well know diverse legend the queen Maya Angelou you did many thing for us. Will always be appreciated thank you very much!
Amazing, so much wisdom. In had to stop get a pad and pencil at 13:30, "Tell the truth, live in the present. Don't deny the past yet live in the present.....
"I know that when I finish doing what I'm sent here to do, I will be called home. And I will go home without any fear...trepidation some..."
God has called you home Dr. Angelou. Although I am saddened by your passing, I thank God for sharing you with us. You will always be honored and remembered fondly. The works you leave behind will be read/watched for many generations to come. In this way you accomplished your goal in being the representative of your race...the HUMAN race.
How inspirational. You can tell that even at her age she wants to keep growing to be a better person and instill that on others. That makes me want to do the same and to be that kind of example for my 10 year old son, and others...
Marvelous~!!!!
Thanks so much for doing and sharing this interview! :)
Amazing and she is a lovely woman with a big heart and a even greater love for change and truth
There are days I just want to hear her voice and wisdom; today being one of them...and tomorrow will be better.
This was a great interview George, thanks!!
Thank you so much for this 🌷
Thank you, Dr. Angelou. Well served !
soul shine within her!
beautiful inspiring interview
thank you`!
Thank You Mr. Stroumboulopoulos for this very short, yet so informative interview. You managed to cover a lot of ground and didn't flinch in your approach and you gave Dr. Angelou yet one more chance to prove to us again why we admire her so much. Maya never just talked the talk, she walked it, lived it, breathed it. What she says at 12:58 ..."Tell the Truth...First to yourself, then to the Children..." is where it should begin, for all us. Start with the truth...
What a beautiful interview.
Oh my goodness. I didn't know he did that. Wow.What an interview. Bless your spirit Dr. and yours too Strombo
Gotta LOVE Maya. Very few people can help me balance.
Very uplifting.
If you need inspiration to get through today, this interview will do it. Strombo was very lucky to have a chance to talk to Dr. Angelou.
May she rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us
omg so glad I've had a chance to see this..'a representative for my race..the human race' amazing woman RIP
A "superior" enlightened human being.
A timeless rainbow in the clouds.
RIP Dr. Maya Angelou.
Brilliant Woman. A life well lived. Thank you. RIP.
Looking at life from a new perspective, applying wisdom and common sense made this lady rather special
when I listen to the Dr, I feel like I've just received a lesson from the great teacher. she preaches self truth, self awareness and humility in a major way.
Simply Fantastic :)
I love *present tense* this woman, always have. She has always been a soothing voice of truth, but she made no qualms about calling you to the line for any wrong you may have done.
It is funny how your giants seem immortal until they aren't. I knew she was very aged, but didnt think about her physical breakdown. If you watch closely, her right side was very weak here. Any time she lifted the right arm..she supported it with the left. I am happy however, that she aged and left this earth as she wished, with her mind FULLY in tact. Rest well beautiful.
I love this
Up until the end she was still so lucid, wise and profound.
Rest in Perfect place Mama
Wow....
i miss her so
Rest in paradise Queen Angelou
R.I.P.
I wish I could of met her
RIP
Why is there such need to bring prostitution into a question and to an 80 year old woman, yes Ms Angelou may have admitted warts and all regarding her youth but for the sake of God is it truly that needed in an interview to talk of it ?,and from such a brilliant brave wonderful mind as that of the very important Maya Angelou.
my second momma I love her
12:09 Beychella fans/ netflix documentary
what she'd say to us on embarking on a new year (2013)... and on the ancestors --
tell the truth, to yourself first, and to the children. live in the present. don't deny the past. live in the present, and know the charge on you is to make this country more than it is today. and our country, to make this more than these yet to be united states. and to make canada all that it can be for all the people who've come there with their thirst for freedom and fair play. that's true of japan, that's true of australia. we have to do something. we have to be up and coming, up and doing.
we owe it. we've already been paid for whether the ancestors came from eastern europe trying to escape by the pogroms and little and large murders. if the ancestors came from ireland trying to escape the potato blight... wherever they've come from, they've paid for each of us already. and all we really have to do is pay for those who are yet to come.
Awww... She was looking forward to writing a poem for Hillary's 2016 inauguration. That is if she runs and wins, of course.
Joshua Jackson how ironic
12:06 CHIIILSSS
the healthy kind of christian
what i got from this interview "she said NO to mr. king when he asked her to raise money for a campain bc she had to throw a party in nyc for her suffisticated friends, she switched from clinton to obama party when she steped down, hypocritical.
that's what you got??? and by the way clinton and obama belong to the same democratic party, she didnt switch teams, she just continued to fight the same cause when clinton stepped down.......
We all make mistakes and she was tearful when sharing that story. We have to give grace to ourselves and to others
Up until the end she was still so lucid, wise and profound.
RIP
Up until the end she was still so lucid, wise and profound.
Up until the end she was still so lucid, wise and profound.
Up until the end she was still so lucid, wise and profound.