K is Maya Angelou on a school production celebrating Black History Month. Her teacher sent home a whole page of lines to memorize... It opens with:
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise."
and closes with the words President Obama quoted as he presented Dr. Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom a few days ago:
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
Dr. Maya Angelou - poet, author, educator, dancer, producer, actress, historian, film maker, civil rights activist.
Photo: Associated Press
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