Poem I Like

Maya Angelou



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?

Whoa,shes an African-American poet, memoirist, actress, and civil rights activist. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

She has published numerous other collections of verse and was an unwed mother. To support her young son, Clyde Bailey "Guy" Johnson, born in San Francisco, she danced in night clubs, conducted cable cars, cooked at a Creole cafe, removed paint at a body shop, and was a madam and prostitute at a San Diego brothel. However, she soon returned home, to Stamps, Arkansas, then Louisville, Kentucky.

Extract From Wikepedia Da Free Encyclopedia!

I was watching Oprah My Favourite TalkshowIn The Entire World a couple of days ago when she introduced this certain Maya Angelou who used to cook for her for abit when she was young. Influential, highly accomplished woman. Weathered the storms of life i guess. I look up to people like these.

I'm gonna read up more on her then i can write more. as u can see ive got nothing much to write except for the extract from wikepedia.

haha oh and did i forget to mention, i Love Oprah.

Oprah Rocks My Socks.