The new documentary film, "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise," begins
with her quote, "We must encounter defeats but we must not be defeated,
but in fact it may be necessary to encounter defeats so that we'd know
who the hell we are."
Indeed, Angelou, who was literally transported with a tag on her arm and no adult supervision at the age 3 to Stamps, Arkansas, did not allow life to defeat her. She was a teenage mother who survived rape at age 7, had three marriages, worked with Dr. King and Malcolm X, and wrote a poem for a presidential inauguration. Angelou thrived with a new voice in each decade.
"Phenomenal woman wasn't just something she
wrote. It was who she was," former Presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton says in the film.
Indeed. Though most may remember Angelou as a
poet and author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Kunta Kente's
grandmother in Roots or reciting the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at
President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration, the film sheds light on
other parts of her life that are not as well known.
Click here for the full article. '
No comments:
Post a Comment