I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. Facing Evil with Maya Angelou.

We need the courage to create ourselves daily as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking,

caring, laughing, loving human beings.

I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something

applicable to the development of our evolution individually and collectively is exciting.

Thanks for joining us.

Once again, we're remembering the author and poet, Maya Angelou, who died three months ago

at the age of 86. At the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that

a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights

has fallen silent. Well, not exactly, because we'll be hearing

by Angelou's voice for a long time to come. She left seven autobiographies, three books

of essays, volumes of poetry, and many recorded appearances on stage, television, and at public

readings of her work. Here she is in 1993, reading her poem on the Pulse of Morning,

written for Bill Clinton's first inauguration as president.

History, despite its rinsing pain, cannot be unlived,

but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you.

Give birth again to the dream.

Women, children, men, take it into the palms of your hands,

molded into the shape of your most private need,

sculpt it into the image of your most public self.

Here, on the pulse of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister's eyes and into your brother's face, your country, and say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning.

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