Posted on 04/04/2018 3:03:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Google gathered a star-studded cast of celebrities, including Alicia Keys, Laverne Cox, and Oprah Winfrey, to help celebrate Dr. Maya Angelou.
Today's Doodle honoring the poet, civil rights activist, and author on what would have been her 90th birthday is nothing short of a masterpiece. When you click the homepage illustration, you'll hear the words of Angelou's empowering poem "Still I Rise" read aloud as drawings illustrating each line fill the screen. The recorded reading from Angelou is interspersed with sections read by Keys, Cox, Winfrey, America Ferrera, Martina McBride, and Angelou's son, Guy Johnson.
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“first last”, above, should be “first lady”.
My fingers aren’t quite synched to my brain today, for some reason. :-)
Willie said it better, “I woke up still not dead today.”
I saw this yesterday and couldn’t figure out who it was. I’m sure that labels me as insensitive, out of touch, racist and in need of left wing “therapy” to get my head right.
Well, actually I was referring to specific functionalities.
If this woman was a “poet”, I’m a rocket scientist.
Cill my landlord by Eddie Murphy.
kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
watch dog bark, though he bite,
kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
slip in his window, break his neck,
then his house I start to wreck,
got no reason, what the heck!
kill my landlord, kill my landlord,
C-I-L-L my landlord.
I have always thought that Michael Savage missed his calling by not coming out with an album of him reading Maya Angelou poetry
The following video is pretty much what you are describing (you have to watch to the end to get to the part where you will be laughing hard enough to bring tears to your eyes).
Fiona Apple disagrees with all of you....
/// Her books get bought but nobody reads them. ///
Yep. She is one of the names libs throw around to show how smart they are. Virtue signaling at its best.
That's another problem with the Maya Angelous of this world-- they not only displace the classics, but they displace black writers who actually grew up in slavery or the period shortly thereafter when hurt feelings weren't deemed equivalent to actual discrimination.
When you have a serious ailment that will probably require surgery, never go to a “doctor” who writes poems.
O. Henry was black?
So that’s what that is. Looked to me like the uppity broad who gave me a ration of feces the last time I visited the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew my registration.
‘Still I Rise’ but nothing for “He is Risen”.
I quit using Google because their doodles and/or lack thereof pi$$ed me off badly. I use Bing which has a beautiful photo every day.
Cheesy pop doggerel passing itself off as profound.
In other words, poets.
ML/NJ
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