Best Of - Maya Angelou (Part 2): In the Spirit of Martin

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we treat you to a re-broadcast of this episode from 2017. Maya Angelou and Martin Luther King Jr. were close friends, years before Angelou became known throughout the world for her memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." In this, the second our two Maya Angelou podcasts, she offers her personal reflections of Dr. King as a poet and a man with great humility and a sense of humor. She talks about the state of the African-American community decades later, and the importance of using language to uplift (describing an encounter she had with Tupac Shakur to make her point). And in her powerful, unique voice, she reminds us of the eternal relevance of Dr. King's wisdom. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017-2023

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0:00.0	A decade before Maya Angelo published her first and now classic book, I Know
0:08.0	Why the Caged Bird sings. She was a civil rights activist and a friend of Martin Luther King Jr.
0:14.5	The dream of Martin Luther King for me represents the best the human being can hope for.
0:21.0	A world of peace, of development, a world of respect, a world where all men and women are valued,
0:35.6	none higher than the other, none lower than the other
0:39.0	because of his or her color or his or her race or his or her religion or cultural persuasion.
0:47.0	That is the best we can hope for.
0:49.8	I think this is the dream of America.
0:53.0	In the last episode of what it takes,
0:55.0	we heard Maya Angelo talk to students about the lessons she'd learned
0:59.0	over the course of her life,
1:01.0	lessons about resilience and joy that sprang from her childhood trauma and
1:06.4	from living in the Jim Crow South.
1:08.7	In this episode as we approach the 30th observance of the MLK National Holiday will hear Angelo talk about
1:15.8	what she learned from Dr King. This is what it takes a podcast about passion, vision
1:22.3	and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
1:25.7	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:26.7	Academy, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:35.0	If you have the opportunity not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it you may never have another job
1:42.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the
1:44.4	picture started to form itself. There was no way in which a lie could
1:49.2	prevail over the truth. Darkness over light, death over life.
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