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| Searching... Keyword: Maya Angelou Matches Found: 213 A PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ACCIDENT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight %when you spread your pallet Last Line: And the naked %black-white truth AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she has lain Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she had lain Subject(s): African Americans - History AFTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: No sound falls Last Line: Of our absent selves AILEY, BALDWIN, FLOYD, KILLENS, AND MAYFIELD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When great trees fall Last Line: Better. For they existed Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks AILEY, BALDWIN, FLOYD, KILLENS, AND MAYFIELD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When great trees fall Last Line: We can be. Be and be %better. For they existed Subject(s): African Americans AIN'T THAT BAD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Dancin' the funky chicken Last Line: An' ain't we fine AIN'T THAT BAD?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dancin' the funky chicken Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ALONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying, thinking Subject(s): Solitude ALONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Lying, thinking %last night Last Line: Can make it out here alone AMERICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The gold of her promise Last Line: Discover this country AMOEBAEAN FOR DADDY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I was a pretty baby Last Line: Just to look at me ARRIVAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Angels gather. %the rush of mad air Last Line: You %beyond the door ARTFUL POSE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Of falling leaves and melting Last Line: And hateful wrath %quickly AVEC MERCI, MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: From her perch of beauty Last Line: When he cries AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains forcing their will Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains forcing their will Last Line: Unasked and unheeded BLACK ODE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty is a thunder Last Line: Oh, to lick your love like tears BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As far as possible, she strove Last Line: In the wallpaper Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: As far as possible, she strove Last Line: Fingers counting the roses %in the wallpaper Subject(s): Child Molesting BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, unaccustomed to courage Subject(s): United Nations BRIEF INNOCENCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn offers %innocence to a half-mad city Last Line: Of childish pranks with %angels BUMP D'BUMP, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a game like blind man's dance Last Line: Bump d'bump bump d'bump CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A free bird leaps Last Line: Sings of freedom Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A free bird leaps Last Line: For the caged bird %sings of freedom Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom CALIFORNIA PRODIGAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eye follows, the land Subject(s): Nature CALIFORNIA PRODIGAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The eye follows, the land Last Line: Sunlight casts defiance %at their feet CALL LETTERS: MRS. V.B., by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Ships? %sure I'll sail them Last Line: I never learned to spell it. %not failure CALLING OF NAMES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: He went to being called a colored man Last Line: Nigguh, I ain't playin' this time CHANGES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Fickle comfort steals away Last Line: Tomorrow it returns to me CHANGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Last Line: But I never catch %you simply smiling, anymore CHICKEN-LICKEN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: She was afraid of men Last Line: Dead of acute peoplelessness CHILD DEAD IN OLD SEAS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Father, %I wait for you in oceans Last Line: The rippled %surface of our %grave COLERIDGE JACKSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coleridge jackson had nothing to fear Last Line: Away, lurking at something else Subject(s): Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry COLERIDGE JACKSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Coleridge jackson had nothing to fear Last Line: Away, lurking at something else Subject(s): Racism COME, AND BE MY BABY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The highway is full of big cars Last Line: Come. And be my baby COMMUNICATION 1, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: She wished of him a lover's kiss and Last Line: He said he loved another COMMUNICATION II, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The student %the dust of ancient pages Last Line: Of all her %dry dreams CONCEIT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand Last Line: Give me your hand CONTEMPORARY ANNOUNCEMENT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Ring the big bells Last Line: And rent day's here again COUNTRY LOVER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Funky blues %keen toed shoes Last Line: Red soda water %and anybody's daughter COUPLE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Discard the fear and what Last Line: Exiled from this earth DETACHED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: We die, %welcoming bluebeards to our darkening closets Last Line: Love is eternal ELEGY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I lie down in my grave Last Line: And watch my children %grow EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality FACES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Faces and more remember Last Line: A poet screams christ waits at the subway! %but who sees FAMILY AFFAIRS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: You let down, from arched Last Line: Beach in africa FIGHTIN' WAS NATURAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: Livin' was hell FOR US, WHO DARE NOT DARE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Be me a pharaoh Last Line: Know me %africa FORGIVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Take me, virginia Last Line: As rolled eyes, sad as summer %parasols in a hurricane GAMUT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Soft you day, be velvet soft Last Line: My true love is leaving GEORGIA SONG, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: We swallow the odors of southern cities Last Line: Of southern peace GLORY FALLS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Glory falls around us Last Line: We grow GOOD WOMAN FEELING BAD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The blues may be the life you've led Last Line: Some blues I've had GREYDAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The day hangs heavy Last Line: My lonely heart %when we're apart HARLEM HOPSCOTCH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: One foot down, then hop! It's hot Last Line: They think I lost. I think I won HEALTH-FOOD DINER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: No sprouted wheat and soya shoots Last Line: For smoking carnivores HERE'S TO ADHERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I went to a party Last Line: For %me %once HOW CAN I LIE TO YOU, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Now thread my voice Last Line: Of sad and wise %decisions HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: Than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: We are more alike, my friends, %than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood I ALMOST REMEMBER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I almost remember %smiling some Last Line: I seem to remember %smiling IMPECCABLE CONCEPTION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I met a lady poet Last Line: And write about romance IN A TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: In a time of secret wooing Last Line: Then pain stalks in to plunder IN ALL WAYS A WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady Subject(s): Women IN MY MISSOURI, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: For you man %the man IN RETROSPECT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Last year changed its seasons Last Line: Alone. I remember now INAUGURAL POEM: ON THE PULSE OF MORNING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A rock, a river, a tree Last Line: "with hope -- Subject(s): Inaugural Poem INAUGURAL POEM: ON THE PULSE OF MORNING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A rock, a river, a tree Last Line: And say simply %very simply %with hope %good morning Subject(s): Inaugural Poem INSIGNIFICANT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A series of small, on %their own insignificant Last Line: Small insignificancies INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Last Line: And much more painful IS LOVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Midwives and winding sheets Last Line: Is it love? JOHN J., by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: His soul curdled Last Line: Everybody in the %pool %(she didn't want him) JUNKIE MONKEY REEL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders sag, %the pull of weighted needling Last Line: How long will %this monkey dance JUST FOR A TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how you used to walk Last Line: Just for a time JUST LIKE JOB, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, my lord Last Line: I'm stepping out on your word KIN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity KIN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: We were entwined in red rings Last Line: An arkansas twilight KIND OF LOVE, SOME SAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Is it true the ribs can tell Last Line: Unequalled on the rack KNOWN TO EVE AND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: His tan and golden self Last Line: The slithering sound of my own skin %moving in the dark LADY LUNCHEON CLUB, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Her counsel was accepted: the times are grave Last Line: Speaker must be brief) LAST DECISION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The print is too small, distressing me Last Line: Today I'll give up living LATE OCTOBER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully %the leaves of autumn Last Line: In order simply %to begin %again LESSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I keep on dying again Last Line: Because I love to live LET'S MAJESTE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a throne upon the times Last Line: Only just a prince LETTER TO AN ASPIRING JUNKIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Let me hip you to the streets Last Line: That's the streets, man %nothing happening LIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Today, you threaten to leave me Last Line: Do drop a line or telephone LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows on the wall Subject(s): Life LITTLE GIRL SPEAKINGS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't nobody better'n my daddy Last Line: No lady cookinger than my mommy LONDON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: If I remember correctly, %london is a very queer place Last Line: Mighty queer Subject(s): London LORD, IN MY HEART, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Holy haloes %ring me round Last Line: If I'm struck then %I'll strike back LOSS OF LOVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The loss of love and youth Last Line: The truly young to own %the stage? LOVE LETTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Listening winds %overhear my privacies Last Line: Oh, but then I had power. %power MAN BIGOT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who is a bigot Last Line: You simply smiling anymore Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MAN BIGOT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The man who is a bigot Last Line: Who really is ms. Begot Subject(s): Racism MANY AND MORE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There are many and more Last Line: And that one is my love MARTIAL CHOREOGRAPH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Hello young sailor Last Line: Like the arms of dancers %and dying swans ME AND MY WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I got a piece of a job on the waterfront Last Line: That's someone else's word for caring MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Last Line: And all my days are dying Subject(s): Farm Life MEN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I used to Last Line: Stand and watch %maybe MILLION MAN MARCH POEM, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night has been long Subject(s): Million Man March (washington, Dc, 1995) MISS SCARLET, MR. RHETT AND OTHER LATTER-DAY SAINTS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Novitiates sing ave Last Line: Blessed rhett, the martyr MOMMA WELFARE ROLL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Her arms semaphore fat triangles Last Line: They don't give me welfare %I take it MOTHERING BLACKNESS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: She came home running Last Line: She came home blameless MOURNING GRACE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: If today, I follow death Last Line: Grace %to mourn for %me MY ARKANSAS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There is deep brooding Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Arkansas MY GUILT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: My guilt is 'slavery's chains,' too long Last Line: My sin lies in not screaming loud MY LIFE HAS TURNED TO BLUE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Our summer's gone Last Line: My life has turned to blue NEW HOUSE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: What words %have smashed against Last Line: Left of me NO LOSER, NO WEEPER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I hate to lose something' Last Line: And I mean I really hate to lose something' NO NO NO NO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: No %the two legg'd beasts Last Line: And I have no pity NOTHING MUCH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: But of course you were Last Line: My life, so I say %nothing much NOW LONG AGO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: One innocent spring Last Line: And comes to sleep upon your %pillow NOW SHEBA SINGS THE SING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alphabet Verse OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening / to them Subject(s): Old Age OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening %to them Subject(s): Old Age ON A BRIGHT DAY, NEXT WEEK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: Falling from the sky ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Subject(s): Aging; Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Last Line: A lot less lungs and much less wind. %but ain't I lucky I can still breathe in Subject(s): Aging; Labor And Laborers; Women ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: And no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: Where love is the scream of anquish %and no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON REACHING FORTY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Other acquainted years Last Line: To die at %thirty-nine ON WORKING WHITE LIBERALS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I don't ask the foreign legion Last Line: When I see a white man load a black man's gun ONE MORE ROUND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't no pay beneath the sun Last Line: And let's heave it down OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down in the moist dirt Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Last Line: Lay aside your fears that I will be undone, %for I shall not be moved Subject(s): Grandparents PASSING TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your skin like dawn Last Line: The other, the end of a %sure beginning PHENOMENAL WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies Last Line: That's me. Subject(s): Women PICKIN EM UP AND LAYIN EM DOWN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There's a long-legged girl Last Line: Gettin to the next town %baby PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Last Line: Greedy arms PLEA TO AN INAUGURAL POETESS, by TOM RILEY First Line: The world ignores me. What am I to do? Last Line: Fly to my rscue, maya angelou! POOR GIRL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: You've got another love Last Line: Poor girl %just like me PREACHER, DON'T SEND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography PREACHER, DON'T SEND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: Promise me that %or nothing at all PRELUDE TO A PARTING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Beside you, prone Last Line: A fleeing love %to stay PRESCIENCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Had I known that the heart Last Line: Wanted more and cared less PRISONER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even sunlight dares PRISONER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Even sunlight dares Last Line: Then rails to run PUSHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: He bad %o he bad Last Line: Yet gives no sweet %release RECOVERY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A last love Subject(s): Love RECOVERY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A last love, %proper in conclusion Last Line: And speeding toward the light REFUSAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved %in what other lives or lands Last Line: I will not deign to die REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel REMEMBRANCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands easy %weight, teasing the bees Last Line: Then, can I greedily consume %your presence REQUEST, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: If this country is a bastard Last Line: Time of its life REVERSES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: How often must we Last Line: In our past RIOT: 60'S, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Our %your friend charlie pawnshop Last Line: Shoot him while he run SAVIOR, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Petulant priests, greedy Last Line: Although we have lost %your name SENSES OF INSECURITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't tell fact from fiction Last Line: And found my senses lost SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: You got at miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Beauty SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: I'd remind them please, look at those knees %you got a miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans - Women SEVEN WOMEN'S BLESSED ASSURANCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: One thing about me Last Line: To rest sometime SHAKER, WHY DON'T YOU SING?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Evicted from sleep's mute palace Last Line: Shaker, why don't you sing SINGER WILL NOT SING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A benison given. Unused Last Line: To this place SLAVE COFFLE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Just beyond my reaching Last Line: That my life was gone SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what happens to grass Last Line: But then growing still again Subject(s): Farm Life SON TO MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I start no Last Line: "before I annihilate Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SON TO MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I start no Last Line: Before I annihilate %their ignorance? Subject(s): African Americans SONG FOR THE OLD ONES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers sit on benches Last Line: They kept my race alive Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SONG FOR THE OLD ONES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers sit on benches Last Line: They kept my race alive Subject(s): Labor And Laborers SOUNDS LIKE PEARLS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds %like pearls Last Line: With blushings %disappear SOUTHEAST ARKANASIA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After eli whitney's gin brought to generations Last Line: And the absence of despair / over yonder? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SOUTHEAST ARKANASIA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: After eli whitney's gin brought to generations Last Line: And the absence of despair %over yonder Subject(s): Labor And Laborers STARVATION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Hurray! Hurry! %come through the keyhole Last Line: And laughs at each eviction notice. %come STILL I RISE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies Last Line: I rise. Subject(s): African Americans - Women TAKE TIME OUT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When you see them Last Line: Take time out TEARS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Tears %the crystal rags Last Line: Blue farewell %of a dying dream TELEPHONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: It comes in black Last Line: Ring. Damn you TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: And one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger; Childhood TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: Them peas and lamb chops %and one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger THANK YOU, LORD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I see you %brown-skinned Last Line: I want to thank you THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because we have forgotten our ancestors Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity THE MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOTHERING BLACKNESS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came home running Subject(s): Homecoming THE TRAVELLER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Byways and bygone Subject(s): Solitude THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: Which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States; America THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: And cannot hear the curses %which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States THEY ASK WHY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A certain person wondered why Last Line: You don't even have to talk THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Last Line: They'd spend one night, or two or three %but Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women THIRTEENS (BLACK), by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your momma took to shouting Last Line: The thirteens. Right on THIRTEENS (WHITE), by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your momma kissed the chauffeur Last Line: The thirteens. Right on THIS WINTER DAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The kitchen is its readiness Last Line: My window and the soup THROUGH THE INNER CITY TO THE SUBURBS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Secured by sooted windows Last Line: And grinning. Still %grinning TIMES-SQUARE-SHOESHINE-COMPOSITION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the best that ever done it Last Line: (pow pow) TO A FREEDOM FIGHTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: You drink a bitter draught Last Line: I hear it in your breath TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice at times a fist Last Line: I sit at home and see it all / through you Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital; Negroes; American Blacks; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice at times a fist Last Line: I sit home and see it all %through you Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital TO A MAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: My man is %black golden amber Last Line: New. Now new. %still itself. %still TO A SUITOR, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: If you are black and for me Last Line: A crescent moon, naturally TO BEAT THE CHILD WAS BAD ENOUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A young body, light Last Line: A young body floats %silently TRAVELER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Byways and bygone Last Line: My long nights, lone UNMEASURED TEMPO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises at midday Last Line: But too late WE SAW BEYOND OUR SEEMING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: Dry tablets without token WEEKEND GLORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Some dichty folks %don't know the facts Last Line: On a saturday night WHEN I THINK ABOUT MYSELF, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography Last Line: When I think about my folks WHEN YOU COME TO ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: When you come to me, unbidden Last Line: Trunks of secret words %I cry WHERE WE BELONG, A DUET, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: In every town and village Last Line: Now I'm where I belong WHY ARE THEY HAPPY PEOPLE?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skin back your teeth, damn you Last Line: With your kin Subject(s): African Americans; Happiness; Negroes; American Blacks WHY ARE THEY HAPPY PEOPLE?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Skin back your teeth, damn you Last Line: With your kin Subject(s): African Americans WILLIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Willie was a man without fame Last Line: When the chidren sing %I am the rhyme WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate / rumor of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate %rumor of peace Last Line: A stomp of feet, a bevy of swift hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Last Line: You're all that I can call my own Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WONDER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: A day %drunk with the nectar of Last Line: Long years hence WORKER'S SONG, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Big ships shudder Last Line: Whoppa %whoppa ZORRO MAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet's Biography First Line: Here %in the wombed room Last Line: And trembling for me |
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