Dr. Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise

In memory of Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, activist, legend.

This video of her performing her poem, "And Still I Rise" is brilliant.

Maya Angelou, poet, memoirist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, Calypso singer and dancer in gay clubs in 1950s San Francisco, part of a dance duo with Alvin Ailey, colleague and civil rights worker with both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., best friend to James Baldwin, first black Inaugural poet, friend and supporter of lesbians and gay men before it was trendy or popular and when it most mattered–that Maya Angelou died Wednesday morning, May 28 at her home in Winston-Salem, NC. She was 86. 

To learn more about Maya's legacy, read the full tribute at Lambda Literary.

With gratitude for the light she shone, Namaste,
Lee