4. Still I Rise
Out of the huts of history’s
shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in
pain
I rise
Im a black ocean, leaping and
wide
Welling and swelling I bear in
the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror
and fear
I rise
Into a day break that’s
wondrously clear
I rise
Bring the gifts that my ansestors
gave
I am the dream and the hope of
the slave
I rise
5. “ A year before I had listened along with the entire
country to Maya Angelou read her poem „On the pulse
of morning” at president Clinton‟s 1993
inauguration”
6. Some of Angelou’s
Poems
•The Lesson
•The Rock Cries out to us
Today
•Passing Time
•When you Come
•Refusal
•Men
•Alone
•Touched by an Angel
•Momma Welfare Roll
•Insomniac
•Woman Work
•Phenomenal Woman
7. “In a low voice she wove for her
audience a night of magic with words
of poetry, wisdom and insight “
8. “Is a book of poems which relates to the issues of
contention, pain, love, loss and survival”
9.
10. Maya’s
Achievements
•Member of the Harlem
Writer’s Guild
•Cabaret For freedom
•Member of the Cultural
Association for Woman of
African Heritage
•Her book I know why the
caged bird sings, won a
national book award
•First women to have a
screen play
•Received an invitation
from Bill Clinton to write
and read her poem at his
inauguration
11. -
“The poignant beauty of Angelou’s writing enhances rather
than masks the candor with which she addresses the racial
crisis through which America was passing”
