Maya Angelou: Finding My Voice

Born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, Renowned poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, producer, and director http://www.visionaryproject.org/angeloumaya

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[vje65]

she has the most AMAZING VOICE

[Leticia0608]

@NOMELEMBE: And I then bring myself out. I start (?), I sing, I speak, I speak loudly and firmly, recite poems, Shakespeare James Weldon Johnson. Because mutism is like a drug. It's so addictive, you don't have to do anything.

I couldn't quite get all the parts, but I think you can get the idea :)

[ANGOLANALiKME]

I love her voice because it has humbleness, wisdom and authority in it. I love this woman and what she represents. What an inspiration of how women should be. Not just African, or African-American women. Women in general. Enriched with morals, grace, intelligence, LIFE.

[Leticia0608]

**And Bailey helped a lot...

[Leticia0608]

@NOMELEMBE: And that brought you back?

I continued, yes, to speak. And Bailey ___ a lot. And a year or so later, I went back to California to live with my mother, with our mother, and she knew too that it was dangerous for me to become silent. That's still so, all these years later, 65 years later. If something, things, if I'm really shaken, I stop speaking.

[Leticia0608]

@NOMELEMBE: To hear it, not to make it up in my head. I was making up the sound. I thought this is how ___ sound. But then to say: "I know what the caged bird feels on me/ When the sun is bright on the upland slopes/ When the wind blows soft through the springing grass/ And the river floats like a sheet of glass/ When the first bird sings and the first bud opes/ And the faint perfume from its chalice steals/ I know what the caged bird feels!" To hear it, oh my goodness.

[hwebber002]

When I first heard mayas poems I was profoundly moved , she is awsome her voice is beautifull so full of perfect expression I would love to meet her .

[iDaniella11]

she makes eveything sound so beautiful.

[NOMELEMBE]

@ninecastles hello



[NOMELEMBE]

@GentlePoet1984 hello

[NOMELEMBE]

im a from another country and i dont understand her very well, does anyone mind to writing down for me