~ Personalitatea zilei – Today’s Personality ~

 

”I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”

Maya Angelou

April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri – May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Maya Angelou born Marguerite Annie Johnson was an American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression.

Angelou spent much of her childhood in the care of her paternal grandmother in rural Stamps, Arkansas. When she was not yet eight years old, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and told of it, after which he was murdered; the traumatic sequence of events left her almost completely mute for several years. This early life is the focus of her first autobiographical work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969; TV movie 1979), which gained critical acclaim and a National Book Award nomination.

I Am Human

Subsequent volumes of autobiography include Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), and Mom & Me & Mom (2013).

In 1940 Angelou moved with her mother to San Francisco and worked intermittently as a cocktail waitress, a prostitute and madam, a cook, and a dancer. It was as a dancer that she assumed her professional name.

Moving to New York City in the late 1950s, Angelou found encouragement for her literary talents at the Harlem Writers’ Guild. and landed a featured role in a State Department-sponsored production of George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy and Bess, with this troupe she toured 22 countries in Europe and Africa. In 1961 she performed in Jean Genet’s play The Blacks. …

There were people who went to sleep last night,

poor and rich and white and black,

but they will never wake again.

 

And those dead folks would give anything at all

for just five minutes of this weather

or ten minutes of plowing.

 

So you watch yourself about complaining.

 

What you’re supposed to do

when you don’t like a thing is change it.

If you can’t change it,

change the way you think about it.

 

More on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

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