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Maya Angelou tribute on TLC

Written by TVSA Team from the blog TLC Entertainment on 30 May 2014
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TLC ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRATES DR. MAYA ANGELOU IN A REPEAT EPISODE OF OPRAH’S MASTER CLASS
 
If you get, give. If you learn, teach – Dr. Maya Angelou
 
After receiving dozens of awards, publishing seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several books of poetry along with a credited list of plays, movies and television shows spanning more than 50 years, the late Dr. Maya Angelou will forever be remembered for her inspiring and motivating attributes.
 
TLC Entertainment (DStv 172) will celebrate the life of the great Dr. Maya Angelou in a repeat episode of Oprah’s Master Class: Maya Angelou this Sunday (1 June) from 13:35 and again at 20:00.

Watch as Winfrey and Angelou share intimate and touching life stories from their past.
 
OPRAH’S MASTER CLASS: MAYA ANGELOU

Poet, author and living legend Dr. Maya Angelou explores the mysteries of her creative process, the power of words and how love liberates us all. In this revealing interview, Dr. Angelou opens up like never before as she describes the traumatic events of her childhood and the courage she found to overcome them. This true master offers her greatest hard-won wisdom, abundant advice and the lessons she's still learning at age 82.

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2 Comments

kellogs
31 May 2014 13:47

What a remarkable woman

Tashi
02 Jun 2014 21:35

True-true kellogs. Just been reading through my favourite poem of hers and realised it remains an all-time favourite:

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m 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 daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.


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