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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Me thinks much ink <br>has been spilt <br>over the poem; <br>‘Phenomenal Woman’ <br>by Maya Angelou.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Me thinks it is time<br>I stuck my oar in <br>had my say; <br>hopefully in a far <br>less controversial way.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So I ask all these supposedly <br>expert men who <br>read read read her poem; <br>then see red red red <br>who is Maya Angelou? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A Phenomenal Woman? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And to a man these reds do not know? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Do they also not know <br>that it is personal choice; <br>which poems poets writers we like? <br>All have differing tastes <br>all are entitled to their opinion! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Have they never heard <br>Maya Angelou recite one of her poems? <br>It brings a smile to my lips my eyes. <br>I receive Maya’s performance with pride? <br>It seems no one nobody does it better? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So again I ask do you know? <br>Who is Maya Angelou? <br>A Phenomenal Woman? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Wow what odds would you give <br>on Maya Angelou, a young <br>African-American girl <br>ever achieving? <br>Phenomenal success? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Maya Angelou had her baby <br>at age sixteen? <br>She left home at age sixteen<br>as a single mother? <br>This is a very hard road in which seeds <br>of success could never be sown? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">At age three and a half<br>Maya’s parents divorced. <br>Her dad sent her to Stamps <br>Arkansas, to live with <br>her paternal grandmother.<br>Four years later, her dad <br>sent her to San Francisco, <br>to live with her mother.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Marguerite Annie Johnson <br>experienced legally enforced <br>racial discrimination.<br>As a way of life as a young girl <br>in the American South.<br>What odds now on ever achieving<br>phenomenal success? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What happened to Maya <br>at age seven eight; <br>God forbid I will not mention.<br>When Maya heard <br>her mother’s boyfriend; <br>had been killed by an uncle. <br>Maya felt “her words <br>had killed the man” and Maya; <br>fell into a world silent. <br>Maya “did not speak for five years”<br>until age thirteen; <br>reunited with her mother.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Did trauma cause mute Maya<br>“to go mute for five years? ”<br>Maya recalled, “I thought if I spoke, <br>my mouth would just issue out <br>something that would kill people, <br>randomly, so it was better not to talk.” </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I shall not recite in detail <br>the story of Maya Angelou’s life.<br>Best you read it for yourself! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Therefore a brief synopsis; <br>age sixteen supporting herself her son<br>working as a waitress cook; <br>already given up talents for music, <br>dance, performance and poetry.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then rebirth as phoenix a phenomenal life! <br>Time you look her Maya read all about it! <br>It reads like a suspense novel visual screenplay! <br>This is phenomenal women exceptional lady! <br>I shall never know Malcolm X; Dr. Martin Luther King! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So who is this phenomenal African-American women? <br>“Heralded as a great voice of contemporary literature”! <br>Maya actress, author, civil rights activist, director, educator, <br>magazine editor, playwright, poet, producer, singer, song writer... <br>“three Grammy Awards for her spoken word albums”</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Maya Angelou has been awarded over forty honorary degrees! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Other honors include the Women in Film Crystal Award (1992) <br>Humanitarian Contribution Award (1997) <br>Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in (1998) <br>Among Writer's Digest's “Top 100 Best Writers of the 20th Century” (1999) <br>Presidential Medal of Arts (2000) , John Hope Franklin Award (2006) , Mother Teresa Award (2006) and the Lincoln Medal (2008) . <br>International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in (2008) <br>are but a few of Maya’s honours Maya’s many accolades. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Therefore in genuine sincere respect<br>I bow the head bend the knee.<br>And to these critic men these reds <br>I have but one thing to decree.<br>What God has seen fit to raise up <br>let no man attempt to tear down in stupidity.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=525895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a></strong></div>