Honoring the legendary Maya Angelou 90^th  Birthday "Still I Rise"

By: Maya Angelou

Google celebrates Dr. Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday on April 4, 2018 by honoring some of her best poetry, including her number one poem “Still I Rise”, by creating a Doodle video on google. The Video features her own voice along with other celebrities whose lives she has inspired.    

 Maya Angelou was one the greatest poets of all time because she was wise and unique. Maya Angelou was a public figure, and she was awarded Honorary Doctorates by more than fifty major universities and colleges around the world. One of Maya Angelou’s principal messages was one of inclusiveness; despite our ethnic, religious and cultural differences, we are more alike than unalike. During the celebration of the great Maya Angelou’s birthday, her daughter said, “she saw all our differences in language, orientation and perspective as an indication of the richness of our imagination and creativity, and as elements of our nature that we should celebrate. “In 1981 Ms. Angelou was nominated for several important awards and read a poem written for the occasion at President Clinton’s inauguration. One of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou’s are “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Another important quote states, “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” These two quotes have helped me overcome difficulties throughout my life. She inspires me to be a better me every day. I will never forget the warmness of her voice and the realness of her walk. She was a very brave woman who believed in world peace, that we are one and we should stick together regardless of race. April 4, 1968, which is the day of Maya Angelou’s birthday, was the same day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and he was a good friend. She was a public figure for all women who believe in themselves, despite the situation in their lives. She wanted women around the world to open their minds and see that they were worth more than they thought. She was a role model for the old, the young, and the new generation. Maya Angelou will always be remembered as one of the greatest poets in the world because she paved the way for many of us.

-The Reflection of Black History 

A month for African Americans to reflect on how much history we made from the civil wars to the great leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968) – “King was a pivotal figure in the non-violent civil rights movement.” During the 1950s and 1960s, he sought to improve race relations and overturn discrimination in American society. He is remembered for his powerful speeches which sought to bring about a united society” where race did not act as a barrier. He seen a dream that all whites and blacks couldn’t see that color shouldn’t matter because we all was born the same way because we all are humans and we only serve one God and he created us equal. 

Ms. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) Instrumental in the US civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. “It was Parks who began an influential boycott of segregated buses in 1955. “Parks  wouldn’t give up her to a white man to sit down and she stated to the bus driver that she’s tire she’s been working all day so as she refuses to give up her sit they arrested her she also said “she was fed up with how Negros where getting treated and there should be a stop to racism and segregation. Growing up knowing that the color of my skin is a threat and that I can’t do what the next race can do as a black man I have to work ten times harder than the white man because the color of my skin and even though we have freedom of speech and we have equal rights.

It just like we still don’t have freedom we still have segregation , Police brutality, a president that don’t respect nobody not even his own race he’s only for the wealthy people and he trying to make America great again instead of doing that he’s making enemies with people from different countries. Our first official Black US President Barack Obama of African origin. “Obama served two terms as President and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”  

Despite Barack Obama and his mistakes he made when he was president he was a good man he cared about everybody’s well-being whether black or white he cared about poor, bullies, gangs, thugs, etc. you know it he did what he could do and that’s so much one person can do if we as people put our pride aside we will have a great country again but in this world people want to be the man. Black history is for us to express and be us and make more history together like creating new businesses and making our community’s better and stop the black on black crimes the black culture needs to take back what mankind stole from us which is our integrity.