Still I Riseby Maya AngelouOur Class Theme for 2004-05!(edited for student consumption)![]() You may write me down in history Does my sassiness upset you? Just like moons and like suns, Did you want to see me broken? Does my haughtiness offend you? You may shoot me with your words, Out of the huts of history's shame
![]() Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Dr. Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. She married a South African freedom fighter. In the sixties, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she became a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Maya Angelou is currently a professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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