Maya Angelou - Mini Bio

[MysticNails]

Lov'n Maya!!!



[MsBridgerton]

she can so anything...

[TheAbleUncapable]

whats the music??



[vividlieetrip]

ima put this on my project

[12TabulaRasa12]

saw the SNL skit about her. LOL

[TheTorchSLGuide]

*sighs* So much hate in the comments. I wonder what would happen if there were no other races on the earth? Just the white race? Its not like people hate people for their hair colour (Gingers) or for what they believe in...or its not like there is poverty in the richer countries you know like people living on the streets...its not like theres murder or war over land or serial killers or .... AKA STOP YOUR BITCHING! EVEN IF WE WEREN'T AROUND YOU'D STILL BE HATING EACH OTHER!

[zxyxzy0]

Such an inspirational human being. Such a distingused voice. In such awe of her. Truly motivating.

[Elibeli19]

if i achieve a quarter of what she has done i will be a proud woman

[rrrgovernment01]

she's just so powerful

[rrrgovernment01]

oprah should play her i a biopic

[ruphz]

gollywog alert

[darrouken]

@ruphz Oh look! I'm being racist on the internet. That'll show 'em.

[swwaayy]

I love her so much I'm so inspired by her

[atlasshrugged2u]

Go Maya!

[HayleeGramTV]

Im in the sixth grade and im doing a report on her.due monday this gave me alot of information about her.

[tiphanknee]

0:08 love Maya ANgelou!

[mquintana91]

I love Maya Angelou!

[CarlaMills]

I just love and Respect Her !!!!!

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

my hero is the first slave owner Anthony Johnson, who was funnily enough a black man ! as he stopped slaves from dying in africa and brought them to the USA and gave them housing and food. Also, Irish and Indians were sold at auctions, it was known as indebted servitude. The biggest lie people are told is people were forced into slavery, this is bogus. They came, just like foreign students nowadays, on their own free will. Except those born into it, they got a raw deal. Watch my vids

[jivesassking]

@1973mazdarx4coupe

[jivesassking]

@1973mazdarx4coupe

You ignorant, bigoted fool.

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

@jivesassking you hate the truth. you are the true criminal. may the devil take particular interest in your eternal torture!

[atlasshrugged2u]

@1973mazdarx4coupe I like that..."May the devil take particular intrest in your eternal torture"

Wow! that's actually pretty "rough" when you really think about it though...

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

@atlasshrugged2u im a fucking poet

[Zairebabyphat]

her books goood she helps people with her books she says in the page that talks about her son.shes qoute saying i lurend to love my son with out wanting to process him and i thought him to teach himself.

[mousie2151]

THIS WOMAN WRITING BORING AND ACTING IS BORING.JUST THE WAY SHE SPEAKS PUTS ME TO SLEEP! WHY IS SHE SO CELEBRATED FIRST OFF SHE HATES THIS COUNTRY SHE USE TO BE A CRIMINAL I THINK THE ONLY REASON IS THAT SHE IS BLACK! IF SHE WERE A WOMAN IN ANY OTHER RACE NOBODY WOULD GIVE HER THE TIME OF DAY!

[monicameansfun247]

@mousie2151 Well, at least she did something. If this bores you, why'd you take the time to watch this video anyway? So that you can waste your time to leave this comment? This just shows how arrogant you are. If you had a heart and you were patient enough, surely you'd understand her writing and cherish it.

[nellie2581]

The best poet and actress.

[xmenrus]

@nellie2581 Poetry was boring at best. Her acting skill were none existant. Sorry. You must be very illieterate or parroting what you've been coached to say.

[nellie2581]

@xmenrus I'm not illiterate. I'm international and multilingual. I can read, write and speak very well. I love her poetry.She talks about her struggles. She know how to act. I'm a translator. I'm good in music and dance and with computer. It's boring to you but not to me. Do not call me any names or limit me or put me in a box. You don't even know me. You don't even know my background. Keep your comments to yourself.

[xmenrus]

@nellie2581 Then it's at least true you have your taste up your ass. Maya POOPOO has always been 'boring in a new way' so little nothings like you hang on to the cheap prose your little penny mind can understand and say, "OH MY, this is great stuff!. It tickles my ears; and there are plenty of others to keep me in countenance." Oh please! I've seen dykes and homos marching on Market Street nude in San Francisco thinking they are gonna change hearts their way.

[xmenrus]

@nellie2581 "best"compared to what---a 3 year old? Her poetry was boring krapp and her acting was dull and emotionless.

[erinmammi]

Nice little video but you cannot sum up this lady in any amount of time LET ALONE 5 minutes. If you look the word 'woman' up in a dictionary there will be a picture of Miss Maya Angelou I promise you that !

[GospleWarior]

Dance and drama huh.., how can you earn a earn a scholarship if she didn't speak for 5 years. Funny how they didn't mention that she was a prostitute and a madam. Wonder why they would leave that out. She was concocted. Wonder what white men she laid down for to make her way up the ladder of fame. Maybe she is one of Oprah's lovers?

[DrTroll2]

why did she die?

[xmenrus]

Her poetry is total CRAP. She is a phony.

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus Hey moron, look up and read some of the things she's written. Tell me what people say about that and if you can still say she's a phony.

[xmenrus]

@BlackShadeSkater "BLACK-SHADE?" LOL!!!!

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus Oi idiot, what colour are shadows? I chose this name because a lot of my gaming strategies a assassin-style. Besides, my user name is besides the point. The fact that you decide to make fun of others on trivial matters makes you look even more of an idiot.

[xmenrus]

@BlackShadeSkater The "BALCK-SHADE" knows....hheeee haaaaa!!

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus Wow, you're sad; can't spell properly and you're a racist.

[xmenrus]

@BlackShadeSkater  I'm from Nigeria man. That's how stupid you are. You don't think,man; you assume.

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus That doesn't change anything.

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus What that I still think you're being rude? Nope, I would say I have pretty concrete evidence.

[xmenrus]

@BlackShadeSkater Your mind is a 'self defence' mechanism. Your reasoning power is at the levl of cromagnan man--i.e. CAVEMAN! LOL!!!

[BlackShadeSkater]

@xmenrus How so? Just because I decide to show you your own actions? Anyway, surely the caveman is the philistine, the one who condemns culture and poetry? Namely: you

[shawncateyez]

Amazing!

[BrighterThanYours]

everything your saying is wrong what makes you better why because your women have flat asses and bird noses or because your men have red necks and small dicks seriously who ever informed you about life did you a great injustice

[kingsolomonsmystery]

Beautiful and a real National Treasure!

[castletriglav]

Severely over-rated.

Mediocre poetry.

[Cognacx2]

First of all don't try to preach to me and keep my grandparents outta your mouth...you don't know me or my family . Secondly just because 60 years people were thinking like your dumbass doesn't make them right. And finally I usually don't lower myself to levels of insignificant morons like you but if I was face to face with you I'd punch you in the face!!!

[rmbb10]

What an amazing woman.

[2luvlikidz]

Awesome woman! She and Oprah could be Mom and daughter. Love them both! :D

[MARZChicago]

@Somni100 ..thank you for your brilliant insight...maybee one day theyll do one of these appisodes about your genius...idiot..

[MrHey407]

I love you Maya!!!

[mecookiemonster1971]

Somni100 -

You are so deep and thoughtful. Your words are powerful... relflective of a scholarly refined mind. Brilliant.. I am sure no one else could have come up with that one!

[Cognacx2]

I guess this is the kinda stuff the forefathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution/1st amendment...so idiotic, childish, bigots can have the right to write racist comments about a poet? You all make me so proud to be an American and a soldier who fights and will continue to fight even for these idiots who don't deserve it!

[Ganxiba]

0:17 Omg! fapfapfap

[ANoobGuyProductions]

I only came to this video because i saw a black person in the thumbnail and i saw the title say "Need to know Bio"

so i KNEW the comments would be good

[ayemaya75]

Maya Angelou is about peace and everyone accepting and RESPECTING each other for who they are. However, mostly what I read on these blogs are hate and fighting. Grow-up and wake-up, people! When you fight with each other and hate, all you do is give the "hate" energy and the "powers-that-be" more power. Take your power back, get along and accept each other for who you are, like Maya promotes.

[chieftp]

what an ugly nig. she be about as attractive as those gorilla looking williams sisters. (you, the steroid popping tennis players?)

[dreamwildly]

Maya is a great human being and inspiring

[bria129312]

why do people come on here saying such ignorant things.......like telling someone to "suck a nigger" is repulsive..not Maya Angelou's poetry......Poetry is he language of everyone...

[davidkolo]

maya, "and i rise", angelou?

[RecklessYouth333]

"Its not about a month"

Uh, thats exactly what you were crying about, dipshit, or do you not read what you type? I wouldn't be "surprised" at Hispanic accomplishments, I just know that it doesn't automatically warrant some special holiday or whatever. Besides, what about everyone else? Should we have a month dedicated to every ethnic minority, or should we just do it just for your ethnicity, you conceited twat?

"go suck a nigger"

Broken english plus racism. You do us proud.

[Hewhosmokeswomen]

If you really think it's about a month then you really are a douche. It's about recognition. Hispanics are too proud a people to not receive credit for our many sufferings and accomplishments. If you don't think so then you really have gotten into the mainstream "black and white" mentality.

[Hewhosmokeswomen]

And "broken English" and "You do us proud"

i was using slang but I'm sorry that you expect Hispanics, who are composed mostly of descendants of immigrants, to learn a NEW FUCKING LANGUAGE when they get to America and be fluent at it.

faggot

[RecklessYouth333]

Again, you were the one that wanted the month, seeing as you brought it up in the first place, so don't try to backpedal out of that, dickhead.

You're intentionally missing the point. Every ethnicity in the US has "suffered" to some degree, yet they don't all whine about wanting some fucking recognition month like you. You're acting like an entitled brat and I called you on it. Suck it up.

"faggot"

Homophobia on top of racism? You're like a jack of all trades, huh?

[kittymunch22]

Hah. pretty much everyone is a descendant of an immigrant.

[RecklessYouth333]

Stop speaking for us Hispanics, you bigoted jackass. We're not fucking entitled to a history month more than anyone else. Blacks fought long and hard to be recognized for their accomplishments in America, and rightfully so. If you feel so slighted, then do the actual work instead of expecting everything to be handed to you. Your type makes us all look bad.

[moviedude22]

The woman is a national Treasure! Love love LOVE her!

[midwestantiquer]

Excellent writer, totally without bitterness of being black--an incredible feat! Beautiful poetry, a windswept persona, a sigh of relief in a world of angst. I love her, I love her writing. When she speaks, I listen carefully. I am white and she makes me not sorry for it. She is the next step up in our evolution as human beings. May God bless her always.

[RiouInsuiko]

Is that Ant Jemima?

[SmokinBluntzzz]

did she died?

[marquisartistic1]

I love her poetry, and have found much inspiration in it.

[JoeAverage86]

I found her poetry replusive & ignorant.

[marquisartistic1]

Perhaps one needs to be above average to appreciate it.

[crono916]

Didn't Kayne West try to compare himself to her? What a moron.

[JoeAverage86]

well, her & Kayne both have something in common....they both hate white people.

[Shiks2]

She's still alive dear

[pointsur]

She is not dead

[IloveMaryJBlige]

I wanted to use a quote from her for my senior quote but it was too long. = ( she's such an intelligent woman.

[JoeAverage86]

Intelligent? I found her poems bizarre and without structure. Terrible inmanbic pentameter; lacking any semblence of arrangement.

Basically, she is a fraud and a bigot.

[calico1248]

@sunofnibiru yo, suck my Puerto Rican dick

[Not4Games]

It's so AMAZING how much her & Oprah Winfrey resemble.

[urbcire]

that seems like a month to me

[danverkim]

You odviously don't realize that both european and African history is interwoven in hispanic culture so be more specific because more than one group of people are embodied into "Hispanic culture," and some look black and some look white. You decide!

[danverkim]

In America, historically, black and white history has always been more popular than hispanic history. Also, black history is so broad that it also embodies some hispanic history due to the spanish and African descendants who were birthed through slavery.

[TheMuseDefined]

Maya is one of my favorite writers, as well as Nikki Giovani. I remember when she spoke at Prairie View A&M University, it was a moving event. Always good wisdom to hear them speak.

[PermaWrath]

You could say that about many other minorities too, so why bitch about just Hispanics?

[Waiting4Godsmiracle]

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO :)

[ehcmier]

What the fuck?

[Asparagusville]

Easy Sister, your boyfriend still cares.

[razaa6]

Yeah that's all well and good about how she lived her life! BUT WHAT HAS SHE DONE LATELEY? Has she given anything to the plight of the HATIANS? You won't be praised by me bitch until you do something worth a fuck Like GIVING... Dig deep you old broad and give what you can.. I am so sic of niggah's always promoting themselves and doing nothing for OTHERS...And you YOUTUBER motha-fuckahs should give as well..Bunch of WORTHLESS bitches and bastards.

[tokidokiprincess]

STFU

[BitterBarbara]

@razaa6 wow you really need to shut the fuck up.

[philopadaumus]

watch?v=Xy71whQ_ImM

[ViolinSnowKid]

One of hte few things and people that makes St. Louis a decent city.

[CesarManiaX]

I'm surpried that she's still alive.

[Asparagusville]

Catch cockroaches by lining your pockets with bait. Lie very still so as not to encourage suspicion from usually-suspicious roaches. Once the roaches fill your pockets madly dash into the street. Sell your roach-infested clothing to niggers and pocket the savings.

[tehutiheru]

Far as those Roaches Go. Get ready to be stomped out Dum ass Your Race is Losing and there will never be a Pink Race which you call white.LOL you love being a slave to hatetred

[BlackShadeSkater]

@Asparagusville Funny but I think they'll see through your cunning (!) scheme since they're probably smarter than you.

[tehutiheru]

The Original Niggers is a Cavemen from the Caucus Mountins.Why do you Dum ass REDNECKS keep thinking its a Blackman. Your Brainwash tricks have Brainwashed yourselves into believing a LIE. Sorry to Bust your Bubble Nigger but look in the Mirror. Niggers are the so Called Whiteman.Dummy

[Killer0fTheSun]

tehutiheru

There is none lower than a god believing racist....

believer in god -- retarded

racist -- retarded

You are "double"the retardation....

[mmedefarge]

I remember seeing her first on Johnny Carson when I was a kid & being very impressed by her. Always liked her poetry & the way she expressed herself in general.

(Can't imagine any of the current late night talk show hosts having guests such as Angelou on their shows. More's the pity; we've become such total Philistines.)

[MirandaRoss]

she looks like oprah..kinda..

[derubala]

I think both are descended from the Mende-speaking people from west Africa.