Maya Angelou ja kolmen päivän sattumat

Ensin törmäsin netissä Maya Angeloun hienoon runoon "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 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.

Sitten luin sunnuntaisesta lehdestä artikkelin Mayasta.

Ja, kolmas kerta toden sanoo: sain maanantaina kaverilta tuliaisina Mayan omaelämäkerrallisen kirjan. Kirja on ilmestynyt saksaksi jo 1980, mutta siitä on nyt otettu uusi painos.  Alkuperäinen nimi on I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. Ilmeisesti kirjaa ei ole käännetty suomeksi.

Mitä enemmän luen Mayasta, sitä enemmän ihailen häntä enkä yhtään ihmettele, että Obama on antanut hänelle "Medal of Freedom".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2S22Co2528