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  • Im 12, But im still reading her books

  • i watched this today in school :p

  • i dont think many people realize that they themselves are the ones who choose what kind of value is applied to language, or words. instead of adopting the values of somebody else, create your own...

  • @tonyfalca but yes, i know, talk is cheap

  • Maya you are an Angel.

  • Accountability wow I thought it was a lost virtue ! I am comforted to hear anything that even comes close to be accountable right or wrong , all I have heard for a very long time that nothing is either right or wrong and yes ! Finally ,,,,it may be coming back because without right and wrong in this crazy world in which we live there is absolutely nothing !

  • 3:20 Human 2 Human! BINGO! We forgot about that!

  • BTW, vote RON PAUL....freedom all round baby!

  • As a white man, I apologize for all the things that black people have suffered by the white man....now, can we fuckin move on?

  • @bermudaguy1 lol thankyou so much for humbling yourself so much as to apologize. But you really think it that easy to move on?? lol funny comment though

  • @Dallas3212 It's not always easy to move on, but it's simple. You want to hold onto hate, go ahead! You can suffer mental shackles for as long as you want.

    People always want what is easy, I understand that, but it's been over for a long time. What I would suggest people do is make themselves responsible for who they are as individuals and stop allowing their environment dictate who they are! Morgan Freeman echoed these sentiments. You have choices....rejoice!

  • @bermudaguy1 ...Yep, i want to fucking move on, i'm tired of this shit!

  • @dancer95849 I had to laugh when I saw your comment! It's what I said just as I decided to change my life....not in a religious way, because I'm an atheist now, but just who I wanted to be and to accept full responsibility for what happens in my life. A rhetorical question...who do you want to be?

    I've said this b4, we are all equal, but what makes us different is the quality of the choices we make!

    Peace.

  • @bermudaguy1 ...I agree with you. Peace to you also!

  • I have loved her since I saw her reading at the inauguration of Bill Clinton when I was a child

  • ODIOUS !!! Got me a new word !!!

  • As far as black history month...white people get the whole year! And black schools received funding from donations such as evening of the stars program...and black universities aren't exclusive to just only blacks! And I don't agree with the N word..I hate the word and people including blacks need to stop using that word

  • I HEAR BLACK KIDS AT SCHOOL SAY 10X WORST. iTS ok for David chappell to say nigger or any other black insult. I hear black people putting down George Bush all the time? She is dead wrg. Black people get a whole month for black history Im white and i get none. American Indians dont, greeks, jewish ,polish noone but blacks. Blacks get funding for schools which i cant get. Blacks can say nigger and not get in trouble,Imus repeated what he heard and loses his job? So sick of the nonsense!

  • @valkour22 Boy you sound like you hate being white. LOL! Its still not that bad for you sir.

  • @apostolicrevival ?, I like being white and have no problem with it.

  • I love this women her words prick my heart.

  • Words can DESTROY OR CREATE...

  • OMG!! I love love love this woman. A true inspiration, and she speaks the truth not afraid to be real. Wish Everone was like her, This world would be a far better place. Go on wit your bad self Miss Maya Angelou

    :)

  • It is so true-vulgarity is oddious

  • @techytreckynerd chk this chic out she has a way with words but she needs a beat though

  • vulgarity is vulgarity no matter who it comes from. 

  • @hiphopson Exactly! vulgarity is vulgarity no matter what! I didnt mean all black men! i apologize if thats what i came off as, I was jsust trying to make a point that some black men think its ok to degrade their own women but when someone like Imus says something, all hell breaks loose. I didnt mean to say all black men are like this because theyre not!

  • @markee871 yes and i understand there can be a double standard

  • ALL VULGARITY IS VULGARITY!!!

    nappy headed hoes is the same as BIG BOOTY BITCHES, SHAKE THAT BIG ASS!

    its the same thing!

    black men degrade their women but get offended when other men do it?

  • @markee871 not all blackmen degrade their women please STOP the generalization and demonization of my black brothers! The only one degrading blackwomen are the industry puppets, those that sold their soul for the almighty dollar. Degrading of Black women and demonizing of black men is an entirely white supremacist institute and the sellouts who assist their masters. Point blank end of story. There are millions of black men who dont get the time of day in the media who respect and value us BW!

  • @YahSedQanu Ok you find me a culture that makes music calling their women HOES AND BITCHES! if you were to cal their women that they would behead ur ass! STOP DEFENDING BAD MORALS! it is no secret black men(NOT ALL) degrade black women, not only in music vids! who is benefiting when he beds a female, ges her pregnant and denies the child? . STOP BLAMING WHITE SUPREMACISTS BECAUSE UR SCARED TO BLAME WHO IS RESPONSIBLE, WE DONT NEED THE KKK ANYMORE, BLACK PPL DO A GREAT JOB TO EACH OTHER

  • @markee871 You are just here trying to pump it up. I am BLACK I HAVE A BLACK FATHER BLACK UNCLES BLACK BROTHER BLACK MALE COUSINS AND NEPHEWS! STOP the idiocy! I A BLACK WOMAN TELLS YOU THAT NOT ALL BLACK MEN DISRESPECT US BLACK WOMEN! What the hell are you trying to proof! WHITE MEN SELLING THEMSELVES AS GODS ANSWER TO A BLACKWOMANS PROBLEM. From the days of slavery white society (whitemales) have been degrading black men! Time changed I woke up!

  • @markee871 NO we have agitators and agent provocateurs who are white or black (uncle toms) who yell and tell that ALL BLACK MEN degrade their black women. THIS IS PROPAGANDA. The fact that ARISTA/SONY/UNIVERSAL ET ALL recordlabel artist hire black striptease dancers to shake their butt with the go-ahead from the recordlabel owner (WHO IS WHITE) does not say anything about the average black men. It reveals that WHITES are working to create this problem! MEDIA IS OWNED BY EURO their agenda!

  • @YahSedQanu "I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

    BE HONEST AND WAKE UP FROM YOUR DELUSION! STOP TAKING THE EASY WAY OUT AND BLAMING WHITE SUPREMACISTS! BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! THIS IS LIKE THE OBESE WOMAN WHO SUED MCDONALDS! WHEN WILL PPL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. BW NEED TO VALUE THEMSELVES AND THEIR BODIES, TRUE TALK. THIS GOES TO ALL.

  • @YahSedQanu Im just wondering....is your black brother GOLDIE LOC who says in his song "Where that nigga who be talkin shit?

    He don't come around no more because I fucked his bitch

    I made her suck my dick, while I was squeezin the tits

    Then I hit it from the back, gripped tight on them hips

    She tried to make me cum, but I was tryin to take her home

    Dropped you off and seen you fishin on your raggedy Brougham"

    *your arguement is tired! and tried! No KKK member made these rappers write this

  • @markee871 Which one off my brothers uncle tom/leper? I have two brothers, One is going for his Masters. The other one is a proffesional soundrecording artist in the genre jazz/funk he is published in Russia and Japan. Which one of those two you idiot you just showed where you came from. Youre just another white boy trying to demoralize a black woman who backs up black men and you cant have it. You hoped that I was a programmed zombie and tell you what you'd like to hear.. CRACKER!

  • @markee871 artists dnt run any/t there are people(white ppl) behind the scenes that pull the strings they want us to be this way and degrade one another its just that most of us dnt realize it. The whole thing is a system that we have fallen into w/o realizing it because its what is on the media so it sends subliminal messages to our sub conscious mind and has most of us believing that this is how we are suppose to be. But there are more of us against it than with it no matter wht the media says

  • @Precious2001 You are incorrect...and a fool!

  • @YahSedQanu If this is our definition of a man, you are lost and done! A true man will never sell any woman! wars have been fought for the honor of a woman! a true man is masculine and takes responsibility for his actions, he protects women and stands his ground! he will rather be dead than to see his women being degraded by dogs who lust after a woman! if you defend trash like dogs..thats on you, and you wonder why your society is in shambles. Your men are not MEN, theyre "males" BIG DIFFERENCE

  • @markee871 yes but not all black men do it

  • i cant tell if that guys either black or white...

  • So eloquently spoken, with such sharpness, and fervor at her age. I know exactly why Oprah loves her so much. It's the same reason I love her so much. She has been a rare black flower pollinating our planet with peace and understanding fit for all.  I LOVE YOU MAYA!

  • @angiloveross Beautifully written tribute - I am sure no-one could have done a better one to such a wonderful lady as Maya! Thank you for putting my emotions into words.

  • Do she bite?

  • @Dredgephantom2

    you suck

  • @Dredgephantom2 I am a male thank you very much. You can't appreciate wisdom.

  • @Dredgephantom2 Your the type of people we don't need in this world. She is very inspiring and full of wisdom. Something you wouldn't know.

  • be true to da game nigga

  • Watch YouTube video: ... Church Of Oprah #3

  • Picked up the book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing" without knowing who Maya Angelou was many years ago. Could not put it down. Such a beautiful spirit comes through her written and spoken words.

  • @lpride1 ...Sings...

  • Such an amazing woman. She has grace and just hearing her speak, you want to listen and do as she says.

  • 2:55 BS, BS, BS! Black Women - White Men!

  • I say, "AMEN, SISTER!!' Foul language is foul language. This "Shock Jock" and his comment ARE no better than the foul language being used by so-called "artists".

    I have never heard of this "Shock Jock" until this hit the news. I wonder how many others have ever heard of him until this. It seems just like another way to get publicity. After all, bad publicity is bettter than no publicity at all. I wonder how many people even heard his remark first hand.

    Stick and stones . . .

  • Maya Angelou is a woman who knows all too well about the power of words. She diffuses the meaning of manuscript and creates a mechanism of strenghth through speech. Don Imus' statement may have seemed hilarious to others but those derogatory words sparked a thought of the miseries and pains that Black women had to endure all the way from slavery. I guess Don indirect statement is that if rappers can call them all types of names, "Why can't I?"

  • too wise and graceful for words.

  • @waywa13 Not really. She's only received the accolades she's gotten because of her skin color.

  • @Lrdvltr actually. She's earned them. She's been through molestation as a young child. Teenage pregnancy. And a 5 year period where she didn't talk at all because she was so traumatized. And she amazing turned this into fantastic poetry such as Still I Rise, Men, Alone, ect. So next time, just because you see someone who is successful and happens to be black, that doesn't mean that they just get awards thrown at them. (sometimes it's quite the opposite.

  • @Cuterdenu999 I'm wondering what she might have been like without all the drama in her life....seems to have had a positive effect or rather she transformed the negative....my favorite expression is 'life doesn't create who you are...it reveals who you are'.

  • @waywa13 Too graceful for words; except for her eloquent manner of expression, because I'm sure she could describe it well :)

  • What an amazing lady !

    She sums up rappers extremely well - very intelligent.

    ( But culturally void )

  • Power is a very ugly things. Its promotes ego, which promotes seperation, which is an illusion away from the truth. (which is that all is one)

  • she is so poised, so eloquent and so graceful The intelligence she possesses is fascinating. I am in awe of her and pray to one day be at the level that she is. Her, her life, her voice, her words, inspire me. She is one of the many reasons why I continue to write and work to become an author. God bless her and thank the Lord for creating her.

  • QUEEN!!

  • Classy, classy, classy, classy, brilliant and wise. She is wonderful.

  • EYE LOVE HER SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH....MY FAVORiTE POE OF ALL TiME

  • What beauty... what an awesome woman....

  • She is pure inspiration and is a beautiful soul.

  • I revere here so.

  • THIS WOMAN'S WORD SPEAKS VOLUME

  • good women. God bless her and her wonderful spirit.

  • HER WORDS RING SO TRUE TOUCHING THE VERY CORE OF MY BEING MAKING ME FEEL AS ONE WITH HER WITH OTHERS WITH NATURE...THANK YOU EMPRESS MAYA ANGELOU FOR GIVING US SO MUCH !!!

  • The sound of her voice, her sage wisdom and warm heartedness, it's cleansing almost.

  • When people use words such as bitch and hores it is normally not a racial problem. It is a sexist problem and it hurts ALL women. Furthermore, when people are racists they upset not only the other race but also those from their own race who see alle people as equal.

    Shame on them whatever race they belong to.

  • @Bendixensen

    Those MOTHERFUCKING NIGGERS better understand that there are some new CUNT bosses in town and we're not here to FUCK around with those RETARD DICKFUCKS. Let each WETBACK and NIGGER that they're just as bad as DIRTY ASS CUNT MUSLIMS and PEDOPHILES and NIGGER WOMEN who rhyme and FAGGOTS

  • @BlasphemousPothead .....u sir are a dick... sorry for the vulgarity but no other way to put it... wow... people like you... lol

  • @tashamariewhite

    I try to be as much of a BLACK CUNT as possible. Thank you for the feedback, NIGGER DICK FAGGOT

  • @tashamariewhite

    Eating shit is a great hobby of my cunt ass. Vaginal warts interest me to a high goddam fucking degree and I love to fucking shove dildos up my cunt and ass hole. Muslims and jews suck my dick for ten cents a minute. Mexicans do it for scraps of fecal stained food I pass out at my bedroom window. Blacks do it for a diet coke. I know some white faggots and some cunt ass soccer moms who will do it for the taste, some even for the calories, claiming it fuels them during the day

  • @BlasphemousPothead does your mommy know you are playing on the computer?....14 year old little boys shouldn't be using language like that....p.s. in real life i would whoop your ass (believe that baby)

  • @tashamariewhite

    Believe me. In my opinion, I am more than capable mentally and physically to assualt you violently til the brink of death, and then raping you viciously. Those are just my thoughts. What do you have to say in this matter, ma'am?

  • @BlasphemousPothead i say...ur opinion doesn't mean much to reality...p.s. the only way to assault a person is violently lol...u are amusing to me for some morbid reason.. and no "sir" i know i would kick your ass and speaking of reality... i wouldn't really need to being as how i am ALWAYS strapped

  • @tashamariewhite

    Keep your strapped pussy ass outta my way. If you want to buy a pair of balls at your local shit stained thrift store, and fight somewhat like a man, hit me up. Dumbass fool. Why morbid? And I would have to agree with you. Probably none of the people who commented on this video in the entirety of its history are going to become anything significantly successful in life. What a joke. 

  • TITTY OF AFRICAN DESCENT

  • WELL SPOKEN COCKSUCKER FAT TITTED CUNTMASTA

  • FUCKTARD DICKSUCKING NIGGER WART

  • VAGINAL WARTS OF ANGELOU

  • ARTICULATE NEGRO DILDO SESSION

  • MAYA'S HUGE BLACK CUNT

  • so. i love her

  • @Beckyzzzblog

    It's nice to see such a wonderfully articulate nigger.

  • Maya is an intelligent, wise, and inspiring woman

  • @purplebanana1000

    It's great to witness a negroid slime cunt fucker nigger bitch speak so articulately.

  • @BlasphemousPothead I don't know why you bothered to write a comment like that. I suppose you thought you would elicit an angry and defensive response which you would have gotten a great kick out of. Well.........you wasted your time didn't you.

  • @purplebanana1000

    The response appears outwardly calm, but I'm sure I pulled a few strings and pushed a few semen stained buttons on your cunt ass, so don't lie to me.

    And while we're here, I would like to simply, thank you for this. It has been one of the most thoroughly rewarding and memorable periods of my life these past three hours. You actually wasted more time than me because I pumped these two comments out faster than you, and I'm going to set another speed record with your mom soon.

  • @BlasphemousPothead You're a funny guy.

  • @purplebanana1000

    You're too kind. But really, in the funny department I really look up to you. Keep up the good work, cunt.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Really? With the very little I've said, you think I'm funny? Thanks.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Absolutely hilarious. We need more people like you in the world. The only other thing you need to do now is learn how to suck cock better. I want to see improvement, boy.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Thanks. I wish you the very best too.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Tell the ma'am that she gets a ten minute break today. I was very impressed.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Will do.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Thanks bitch. And ask your father if he still thinks your a coward. I showed him the video of you begging me to let you stop sucking my dick.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Like I said before, you're such a funny guy. I just don't know what you'll come out with next.

  • @purplebanana1000

    That last one was out of place, obscene, and frankly inappropriate. I made that comment in sheer desperation and need for a laugh. I was also in a bad mood at the time. That said, let us continue.

    Well I just came, in fact. And since you're wondering I can come again in as little as 10 minutes, I've tried. there won't be as much semen but I'm sure your mother will gobble it up nonetheless.

  • @BlasphemousPothead How nice of you to apologise.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Thank you. Tell your mom I'm sorry for cumming in her eye. That was an accident. And tell her good job on cleaning her dick this time. It was a good improvement over the time before that.

  • @BlasphemousPothead You have such a lovely way with words.

  • @purplebanana1000

    ISLAMIC CUNT. FUCK MUHAMMED!

  • @BlasphemousPothead You sound like you are in a good mood.

  • @purplebanana1000

    I am now. I don't know about your mother though. Talk about rugburn. With a touch of formaldehyde. Jesus fucking christ jesus goddam mother of god what the fuck holy shit man

  • @BlasphemousPothead On a full moon when my periods are unstable, I take out a spoon and drink myself under the table. It tastes ever so good on toast.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Mother of god....

  • @BlasphemousPothead I knew you would like my comment : )

  • @purplebanana1000

    It made me that much harder. You're mom sends her thanks for the comment.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Your charm fills my heart with awe and admiration.

  • @purplebanana1000

    If you like what my heart fills you with you're gonna love what my full throbbing cock can do, boy. NIGGER COCK #1 COMING UP MOTHERFUCKER

  • @BlasphemousPothead I have five nipples and a tail.

  • @purplebanana1000

    I have one throbbing hot cock and a shitload of semen.

  • @BlasphemousPothead Don't lie now. I know you're really a lonely middle aged woman who enjoys licking paint off the walls and eats her own shit.

  • @purplebanana1000

    I'm a dead fetus that just got pulled out of a corpses' womb. My wrists and ankles have been severed and my thraot is slashed.

  • @BlasphemousPothead You should write horror.

  • @purplebanana1000

    I don't remember every detail of your mom's vagina.

    But really?

  • @BlasphemousPothead You really seem to love the mother jokes.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Because I love the mother

  • @purplebanana1000

    COCK STAINED BALLS SHIT

    RETARD MIDGET

    MAYA'S COCK

  • @BlasphemousPothead Take your pills and calm down.

  • @BlasphemousPothead We have already gone back and forth with comments and I just can't be arsed entertaining it any futher, but I just wanted to ask you one thing. Beneath your vulgar exterior, I sense an intelligent person. Do you just write people comments for shits and giggles, or are you so starved for attention that negative attention is better than nothing? Apologies in advance if my comment comes across as critical. I'm not trying to piss you off. 

  • @purplebanana1000

    I am intelligent. To be completely honest, no bullshit, I'm actually a very tolerant person. I respect people, have a sense of humor, a capacity to think, and I appreciate differences in people and viewpoints. I also have a sense of humor, a wittiness which doesn't come out as much in the mostly vulgar comments you've see. I do it for entertainment, nothing more. My actual views are hardly ignorant or inhumane. Piss me off? Like we haven't been going back and forth forever?

  • @BlasphemousPothead Ya, I thought so. I'm sure you are very funny and witty in reality, but what is with the racist comments?As you know, racism can be a very sore point for some people. I just don't agree with deliberately hurting people for entertainment. Anyway, you have your own free will and you can do what you wish.

  • @purplebanana1000

    Genuine racism actually furiates me. I literally want to kill racists sometimes. Sometimes when we're angry, racism is an easy way to relieve anger. I am almost sure that not a single person on this Earth is innocent in that. I've been thinking, I think part of why I do it, is to make racism look bad, and perhaps somehow it will make even more people rally against it, rather than join it. And in that way, I can entertain myself and help something...in a weird way.,,thought..

  • @BlasphemousPothead That is indeed an unusual way to try to get people to "rally against it", but although you may feel your intentions are good, people will just see you as a very ignorant individual spouting mindless drivel with the intent to make others feel inferior, which I'm sure you very well know. If you are really trying to make racism look bad, what is your intention behind telling someone you are going to "rape her viciously"?

  • @purplebanana1000

    Sexism and abuse as well I guess. NIGGER CUNT. Excuse me.

  • @BlasphemousPothead You think you're so funny, don't you? Are you familiar with the phrase "leading someone up the garden path"? I know that is what you were doing, but it was interesting to see what you would say.

  • @purplebanana1000

    haha ok I just did that for entertainment as well. But do you have anything more to add to the discussion? If your question is competent enough to warrant an intelligent response, I'll give you one. If not, then you know where the computer shut down button is.

  • @BlasphemousPothead I'm not trying to be insulting, but I suppose youu feel really brave hiding behind your computer screen insulting loads of people. In reality you are probably a very quiet and reserved person who wouldn't say boo to a goose. Anyway, I wish you the best

  • @purplebanana1000

    Honestly, I wish you the best too. And I don't take that personally. I do accept the truth, and you're right. I have an aggressive side, certainly, but that's more of a personal anger and in reality, is not targeted towards any specific group. I am a quiet, reserved, intelligent, unbiased, and curious person. I don't feel brave hiding. Being anonymous allows more to come out. Why do you think children rarely raise their hand in class when they're older? Being wrong is bad.

  • That's right Maya

  • That Lady is a CLASS ACT!!

  • @tiffanynicolega

    This woman shoves dildo's up her ass, hourly.

  • @BlasphemousPothead - thats ok. you make her and others shine that more brightly. Keep it up.. you make mine and her point.

  • @tiffanynicolega

    The only way you can shine more is sucking my throbbing milk creme veiny ass cock

  • Amazing woman. Yes, vulgarity is vulgarity regardless of who it comes from.

  • Maya is so inspiring to everyone !! love her !

  • Great woman...I could listen to Maya A. for a long time. Her intelligence shines like a beacon...to me at least....Good for her I say...!

  • I'm 16 and I have never seen intelligence in such a pure form like this, right in front of me. I love the message she is putting out, and her words aren't extremely complicated, she's so straight-forward.

  • she's one of our most crown jewels, if not the most as of date...

  • omg haha this is different... normally hearing black people talk is like hearing nails on a chalkboard for me, yes its fair to say that im a bit racist... but this woman has such grace and clarity of thought.. its really refreshing

  • @montfalkon Reading your comment is like nails scraping down a chalkboard. Fucking bigot,

  • I don't see how any could hate her.. she is really an American icon,hero and is honestly a real role-model. If all people were like here this worls could be flawless.

  • Can you check out my poetry!!!

  • woman of substance, i wish more black women will be like her.

  • @kangrotmwa many are. they just are not famous dingbat.

  • @kangrotmwa

    most black women are , you just place yourself in a position to only meet the one's who don't . I wish more humans spoke like her .

  • @kangrotmwa This kind of comment is exactly what she was talking about, with black women being at the 'bottom of the totem pole'. Substance in a woman shouldnt be a matter of color. Thousands of women of all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds could use a little more substance.

  • she's gr8!

  • I would like to hug her before I die

  • @myrtho1 me too. i want to hug or at least shake her hand she is so wise and inspiring it brings tears to my eyess. :3

  • She makes me smile! Just listening to her words calms me... What a great a remarkable person!!!

  • hey i have to agree with you there. I heard one poem called "still I rise" and i was annoyed cause of an argument and that helped to put things in to perspective for me....

  • I love her :).

  • Dr Angelou is a national treasure. Her words are amazing.

  • I wish cbs can interview her more often, tremedous wisdom, and heart.

  • I have two of her books and just finished Hallellujah recipes and life stories, can't wait to read the others, seeing this has made me admire her even more! What an amazing lady!

  • Patient wonderful Woman...to have to be still be making this point...you begin to wonder...will humanity ever evolve ?

  • she is magical.

  • Her response is practically a poem. Maya Angelou, so articulate and inteligent.