Maya Angelou Questions & Answers

I'm looking for a poem that is not extremly well known, like the road not taken, but not totally unheard of. I cant do a poem by shel silverstein, because its for a school project. I really like "I will rise" by Maya Angelou, but it was already taken. Thanks!

What is the theme, type of poem, and the rhyme schemes of: Both by Maya Angelou "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. AND “Touched by an Angel” We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I've been looking all over the net for months and I can not find anywhere to watch this. It is a show on the Sundance Channel. Interview was in 2006, Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou. Iconoclast, Season 2, episode 6. Someone help. Link to preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEu8MAgOgM

i needa know for my english assingment

ok so for literature we have to do a report on 3 authors ...we have to write a little bit about them and then compare their writings...and i have no idea who to pick!? yes the teacher gave us a list of authors but i just can't find what im looking for..i want 3 authors that write alike (example: tragedy, romance, twisted ending) anything but they have to be alike Here is the list if it help (there at least has to be one author, two would be good, from this list) - Mark Twain - Edgar Allen Poe - O. Henry - Guy De Maupassant - William Shakespeare - Carl Sandburg - Robert Frost - William Wordsworth - Langston Hughes - Emily Dickenson - Walter de Lamare - Homer - Charles Dickens - Maya Angelou - W.W. Jacobs - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Richard Dahl - Aesop ok so that was the list so what i need help in is this 3 authors with the same type of writing and and example of their most famous writing i was thinking of doing tragedy but i only got 2 authors--William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe so i just need another author (doesn't have to be from the list) and it can be any type of writing it doesn't matter THANK YOU ALL BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!! by the way this is for 9th grade so nothing toooo hard (:

Well, some might call it a racial issue. I work at a social security office:nothing big or virtually important. In the past few weeks, a woman was promoted-and is the first African American manager at our office. It's great, not saying it isn't, or that I am racist in anyway. But most of the African Americans, besides a small number that I know, are just blowing this way out of proportion. I just found it a little out there when they started organizing this huge party for her, and handing out flyers. But then they put up posters talking about what a civil victory it was: as if our office is the most prejudice place on earth. Then in the lobby, they hung up pictures of Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Harriet Tubman with her picture right in the middle of them. Now, I'm sorry but she is a manager-she is not a famous author and poet who has had an enormous impact our todays society, she is not the wife of the first African American president, she is not the richest woman in the world, nor did she risk her life to help runaway slaves escape north. I am not meaning to offend everyone-but it was no big deal when we had the first gay manager, or the first lesbian couple as managers in the office, so why should this be blown out of proportion like that? What do you think of the whole matter? well wouldn't you want to think that you got your promotion based on merrit, not by the color of your skin?

Would anyone be available to do an interview about Maya Angelou with me on Yahoo Messenger ? If you know a lot of information about her, or are a fan with things you would like to share, I would love to interview you-- It's for my Honors class.

it for a test i need help no getting any results from wiki so yea send in the answers

Ok, so I read SOME of the book because I had to read it for class but I had to keep skipping through some chapters because I kept getting quizzes on each of the chapters too soon. Now I have to answer these questions orally and I have no idea how to answer them since I only read some of the book, I have no time to read the whole book again because these questions are for tomorrow. If you can please help me answer these that would be great. 1.)What is the significance of the opening scene of the book? 2.)How does Maya portray African American women? 3.)How is Maya's relationship with Bailey significant to her life? 4.)How did the characters deal with racism? 5.)Would the significance of the work change if the novel was fiction? 6.)Discuss Angelou's use of figurative language. How does it affect the work as a whole? 7.)Discuss Maya's relationship with her parents. 8.)What is the significance of Maya's muteness? 9.)What is the most important thematic lesson of the novel? 10.)How did the rape change Maya as a person? 11.)What can the novel teach us about life in the South during this time? 12.)If one were to write a "Caged Bird" poem now, how would its character compare to the birds in Angelou and Dunbar's poems?

i need to know how maya dresses and acts for this ten min. monologue! should i be old may or young maya help and 35 points best answer!

[ My opening lines are from Maya Angelou ~ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings] I'll start & continue on, for example after the lines i give , the person below copy & pastes it to their answer , and adds 2 more rhyming lines , and so on & so forth. The last person should have the entire poem on their answer. Saalam & Good luck = ) also be nice __________________________________ The free bird thinks of another breeze an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees. **** If you feel the person above you is uncalled for & simply mean about the lines, feel free to skip them , and nicely move on. **** = ) hahah really great =) what the heck ad why would u delete your answer?

I'm writing an essay on an influential American...Kurt Cobain is influentional to ME but what did he really do besides struggle and then basically give up? Whereas Maya Angelou overcame her struggles and flourished as an author. BUT I can personally relate to Kurt. I feel like the decision is obvious, and I feel like I can't even explain how he's influential. I mean, he inspired me in so many ways but I feel like no one will get it or be able to relate and that they'll (my classmates) will be like "Wtf how can someone who basically gave up on life be influential?" Basically, I just need examples of how he was influential, thanks.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou

Like does she uses more similes, metaphors? Thanks in advance! :) haha Thanks Lana T. but I need serious answers please. Is for a college oral report, and I couldn't find the answer elsewhere. :)

'Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein "Bitterness is like cancer, it eats upon it's host."- Maya Angelou "You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ann Rand

This is a quote by Maya Angelou and I can definately relate!

Hi, I had a weird dream about a week ago, and I've been thinking about it quite a lot. It goes like this: I'm in English, and the lesson is finished. Mr. Henshaw- our teacher- hands us each a copy of 'I know why the caged bird sings' by Maya Angelou. When we finally leave the lesson, I go to my friend Mary, but she just says "I'll catch you later", and goes off with some of the others in our class- Luke, George and Elie. We don't have a lesson afterwards, so we're allowed to go home. I push past Mary and the others, and I'm a few meters ahead when Mary runs up to me and sees I'm in a bad mood. She asks "Gav, what's wrong?" My response; I simply scream "Shut the f*** up and leave me the f*** alone!" Then I storm away. I run into my other friend Kirsty, and she asks me what's wrong. I just burst out crying, and we hug. I tell her how much I love her, and I'm scared that she'll abandon me. Any thoughts on this dream? It's been bugging me for a while. I'd like people to know the following information: I am a girl I have been friends with Mary since the start of year 11 Kirsty is the only friend I have who has never used me for anything

Insomniac by Maya Angelou There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful. Can anyone please help me! and just do it for me... im 15yrs. old and the teacher is nuts... please im begging and i usually don't. :( and if your kind enough to help me use words a 15 yr. old would know

I need to make a Venn diagram comparing the poem "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou to the (themes in the) book "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson.

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water." Maya Angelou

What does I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling I bear in the tide? I'm having trouble with understanding this from the poes still i rise by maya angelou..HELP!! 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 backyard. 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.

I read a story and maya angelou expressed her sensitivity and emotions during her sojourn to africa...when she passed the cape coast castle she was over whelmed with sadness...post ur feelings towards this topic! I also read a slave narrative by Olaudah Equiano and watched the movie amistad.

"A Death in the Family" - James Agee "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" - Maya Angelou "Aquamarine" - Carol Anshaw "Yoruba Girl Dancing" - Simi Bedford "Rubyfruit Jungle" - Rita Mae Brown "A Cold Sassy Tree" - Olive Ann Burns "So Far From God" - Ana Castillo "The Scent From Gods" - Fiona Cheong "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" - Carolyn Chute "The Road From Coorain" - Jill Ker Conway "Stones for Ibarra" - Harriet Doerr "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" - Ivan Doig "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" - Michael Dorris "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" - Roddy Doyle "The River Why" - James Duncan "Walking Across Egypt" - Clyde Edgerton "The Beet Queen, Tracks" - Louise Erdrich "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" - Fanny Flagg "Final Payments" - Mary Gordon "The Book of Ruth" - Jane Hamilton "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" - Allan Gurganus "A Bell for Adano" - John Hersey "Turtle Moon" - Alice Hoffman "Ordinary Money" - Louis P. Jones "Bean Trees, Animal Dreams" - Barbara Kingsolver "The Woman Warrior" - Maxine Hong Kingston "Ironwood, Bill Phelan's Last Game" - William Kennedy "Annie John, A Small Place" - Jamaica Kincaid "Seperate Peace" John Knowles "To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Harper Lee "Crick Crack, Monkey" - Merie Hodge "The Flame Trees of Thika" - Elspeth Huxley "The Member of the Wedding" - Carson McCullers "The Whiteness of Bones" - Susan Moore "The Assistant, The Natural" - Bernard Malamud "Jasmine" - Bharati Mukherjee "Bone" - Fae Myenne Ng "How to Make an American Quilt" - Whitney Otto "Kiss of the Spider Woman" - Manuel Puig "The Chosen" - Chaim Potok "Grey is the Color of Hope" - Irina Ratushinskaya "The Fields" - Conrad Richter "Housekeeping" - Marilynne Robinson "Clay Walls" - Kim Ronyoung "Nobody's Fool" - Richard Russo "A Town Like Alice" - Nevil Shute "The Greenlanders, A Thousand Acres" - Jane Smiley "The Prime of Miss Jean Brody" - Muriel Spark "The Kitchen God's Wife, The Joy Luck Club" - Amy Tan "Breathing Lessons, Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Cafe" - Ann Tyler "The Color of Purple" - Alice Walker "Birdy" - William Wharton "This Boy's Life" - Tobias Wolf

the main themes and a summary of the poem

Help on a poem that i have to analyze for an essay please?!? Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of Morning" .. It's the poem she wrote for Bill Clinton's inauguration. I have to write an essay on it but i'm not sure what the message of the poem is. Also, i have to add the poetic elements of the poem in the essay but i'm not very good at analyzing poems. Can someone please help me? here's a link to the poem .. http://gos.sbc.edu/a/angelou.html thank you!

k, so i have a school project and i need 10 adj that describe Maya Angelou. does anybody have any. i need them asap, before monday

I have heard that she did but I don't know for sure? What happened?

I have looked everywhere and cant find a decent source...i have a rough draft paper due by midnight...i really need some help finding a criticism on the poem

James Baldwin Richard Wright Maxine Hong Kingston Zora Neale Hurston Toni Morrison Maya Angelou Eudora Welty Ernest Hemingway Flannery O'Connor Pearl S. Buck William Faulkner Henry James Sherwood Anderson John Steinbeck B.Q. And what is their best book?

What I mean by images is, for example, a caged bird. I need a deeper meaning and image than just a bird caged up, though. I also need image idea for the song "Caged Bird" by Alicia Keys, the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou, and the story "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. Please, please, PLEASE help me! Thanks! (: I need to know quickly. Thanks. (:

is the book i know why the caged birds sing by maya angelou good

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 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 backyard. 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. What do you think this poem is about? How does it make you feel? Do you think there is a hidden message? Please just tell me what you think about it. Thanks

is it Angel-oh or Angel-ooh??

Poems such as, "Phenomenal Woman" - Maya Angelou, "Barbie Doll" - Marge Piercy and "Woman" - Nikki Giovanni.. & the sources have to be sort've legit..

Please justify your answer.

.) Who is responsible for naming the term "Gilded Age?" Horatio Alger Andrew Jackson Mark Twain Maya Angelou 18.) The form of music made popular in the early 1900s was: rock and roll ragtime / jazz classical none of the above 19.) American had an "Open Door Policy" with which country: Japan China Panama all of the above 20.) Which term does NOT belong in a group describing American city culture: ethnic neighborhoods gangs slums farms 21.) A primary cause of the Boxer Rebellion was: China gradually losing parts of its nation to foreign powers Boxing being banned in China China’s president being assassinated all of the above 22.) Which of the following words best describes the relationship between the United States and Japan in the early 1900s: freinds enemies neutral none of the above

All racial joking aside, I seriously feel Maya Angelou is one of my personal heroes. No, I'm not black, but the crap she lived through, and the chip she had on her shoulder to get her through it all is highly impressive. I'm curious as to why she changed her name, though? Is she not proud of her heritage? What is up with her name change?

or you can just give me some books and i can look for the author i need non fiction books about murder Representative Authors List Autobiographers and Diarists Maya Angelou, James Boswell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Charles Dana, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Lillian Hellman, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, T. E. Lawrence, John Henry Newman, Samuel Pepys, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Anzia Yezierska Biographers and History Writers Walter Jackson Bate, James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill, Vine Deloria, Jr., Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Shelby Foote, John Hope Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Edward Gibbon, Richard Holmes, Gerda Lerner, Thomas Macaulay, Samuel Eliot Morison, Francis Parkman, Arnold Rampersad, Simon Schama, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ronald Takaki, George Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman Critics Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Michael Arlen, Matthew Arnold, Kenneth Clark, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arlene Croce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William Hazlitt, bell hooks, Samuel Johnson, Pauline Kael, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Wilson Essayists and Fiction Writers Joseph Addison, James Agee, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, G. K. Chesterton, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Fussell, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Edward Hoagland, Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Lamb, Norman Mailer, Nancy Mairs, Mary McCarthy, N. Scott Momaday, Michel de Montaigne, V. S. Naipaul, Tillie Olsen, George Orwell, Cynthia Ozick, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Mordecai Richler, Sharman Apt Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, Richard Selzer, Richard Steele, Shelby Steele, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Terry Tempest Williams, Virginia Woolf Journalists Roger Angell, Maureen Dowd, Elizabeth Drew, Nora Ephron, M. F. K. Fisher, Frances Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner (Genêt), Ellen Goodman, David Halberstam, Andy Logan, John McPhee, H. L. Mencken, Jan Morris, David Remnick, Red Smith, Lincoln Steffens, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, Tom Wolfe Political Writers Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, William F. Buckley, Jean de Crèvecoeur, W. E. B. DuBois, Margaret Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, George Kennan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis H. Lapham, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, Thomas Paine, Olive Schreiner, Jonathan Swift, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gore Vidal, George Will, Garry Wills, Mary Wollstonecraft Science and Nature Writers Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Jacob Bronowski, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, John Muir, David Quammen, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Jonathan Weiner Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/repository/52272_apenglocked5_30_4309.pdf

sad, happy,inspirational, funny it doesn't matter i just wanna know what some people have to say. mine would have to be 'But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing' from i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou. its interesting and very emotionally charged dont you think?

I was just on a website that had a list of books that were banned in the US..(i think the site was full of it bc there was a Maya Angelou book as well as Aldus Huxlely) WIth freedom of speech and freedom of press that we have, are books even allowed to be banned?