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#caged #bird #creativity #expression

Picture Remix = #MayaAngelou #book #cover = Heart of a #Woman #[activist, #poet and #writer]

"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

The Unstoppable Maya Angelou’s Legacy That Refuses To Fade https://shinemycrown.com/the-unstoppable-maya-angelous-legacy-that-refuses-to-fade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MayaAngelou #BlackHistoryMonth #Legacy #BlackExcellence #Poetry

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

https://www.poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-poems/america

"Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

- Maya Angelou

Currently reading: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Autobiographies aren’t usually my preferred genre, but this has been on my TBR list for a very long time. I figured #blackhistorymonth is the perfect time to read it. #nowreading #bookstodon #mayaangelou

"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

"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

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." — Maya Angelou

This Black History Month, Learn with Lumi celebrates the power of knowledge, generosity, and community. Education is a gift that grows when shared, and every lesson learned is an opportunity to uplift others.

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

“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):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs

“Angelou on Burns” is also available on YouTube, if you can’t watch on the iPlayer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8

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

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

"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

“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)