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“History,
despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need
not be lived again.” From On the Pulse of Morning. [1993]
Maya Angelou
read these words from her poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” at the inauguration
of President William Clinton in 1993. Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, also
wrote plays, children’s books, essays, produced documentaries, and created
spoken word albums, making her mark on the literary and cultural landscape of
the United States and the world. Ms. Angelou won numerous awards during her
lifetime including: a Grammy, the Springarn Medal given by the NAACP, the
Lincoln Medal, the Presidential Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. To learn more about this remarkable woman visit the following sites or
borrow a book from the Sullivan University Library.
Sites to
visit:
The full-text of On the Pulse of Morning from the New York Times.
O’Brien, G.,
(Ed.). (2012). Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 18th ed. New York: Little, Brown
and Company. pp. 817.
Wagner-Martin, L. (2016). Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit. New York: Bloomsbury.
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