Maya Angelouin a sentence
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Maya Angelou's poem, Still I Rise, begins:
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.Maya Angelou = U.S. author, poet, and civil rights activist
- It is screwed to the wall, so I cover it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian gave me.† (source)
- In the heavily Afrocentric curriculum of the D.C. public schools, he can always apply some personal experience to a passage from Toni Morrison or Maya Angelou.† (source)
- I mean, a society in which Maya Angelou can be thought to be a real poet of some importance is a doomed society.† (source)
- Maya Angelou watches me, two fingers on the side of her face.† (source)
- I want to take the poster of Maya Angelou home, and I'd like to keep some of my tree pictures and my turkey-bone sculpture.† (source)
- Maya Angelou's picture watches me while I sweep and mop the floor, while I scrub the shelves, while I chase spiders out of the corners.† (source)
- Maya Angelou looks at me.† (source)