Today we celebrate what would of been the 89th Birthday of our Beloved, Maya Angelou.
“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.” Maya Angelou excerpt from Still I Rise. Happy Birthday Maya Angelou. Our Matriarch was the dream and the hope of a people that were once slaves. Now we receive the gift of that knowledge and freedom, and today we rise! The Angelou Johnson Family. #andstillwerise