Hillary Clinton

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(70,182 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2015, 06:03 AM Mar 2015

Maya Angelou Stamp Dedication Ceremony To Include Winfrey, Others....& Hillary

Posted March 30, 2015 - 12:26pm
Maya Angelou Stamp Dedication Ceremony To Include Winfrey, Others

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The Maya Angelou Forever Stamp (Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service)
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By Peter Urban

WASHINGTON —..............

Oprah Winfrey, Ambassador Andrew Young, the Rev. Al Sharpton and other notables will participate in a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony that will be April 7 at the Warner Theatre in downtown D.C. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry will serve as master of ceremonies.

The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Md., and features a 2013 painting of Angelou by Atlanta-based artist Ross Rossin. His portrait is part of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collection and is on display through Nov. 1. The stamp also features a quote — “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — taken from her first book: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
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Angelou was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for a collection of poems “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie” and was nominated for an Emmy in 1977 for her portrayal of Kunta Kinte’s grandmother in Alex Haley’s television miniseries “Roots.” She won a Grammy in 2002 for Best Spoken Word Album for “A Song Flung Up to Heaven,” according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

In 1993, she read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

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The stamp can be pre-ordered from the U.S. Postal Service website.
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Hillary Clinton's Tribute to 'Extraordinary' Writer Maya Angelou
Sep 12, 2014, 1:40 PM ET
By ERIN DOOLEY

.... In Angelou's autobiography, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," a coming-of-age story recounting her struggles with early-life trauma and prejudice, Clinton said she saw traces of her own mother's difficult past.

Angelou "was often slotted into subcategories as writers wrote about her: an African American writer, a civil rights activist, a woman's leader. … But in truth, she transcended all labels. There is, however, one label that does stick," Clinton said. "She could have been born anywhere in the world, but I believe only in America could she have become who she did."

"Our country's struggles and triumphs and progress over the past century are written all over her life," she added. "Indeed, she helped to write them.".............

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Some may recall this poem from 2008. I think it is pertinent for today also

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/20/usa.poetry

Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary

Maya Angelou, the African-American poet who is one of the most influential and respected literary voices of the modern age, has written a poem praising Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for The Observer.

State Package for Hillary Clinton

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.

Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her.

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you're born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies. Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to be what it can become.

She declares she wants to see more smiles in the family, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. She is the prayer of every woman and man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy.

She means to rise.

Don't give up on Hillary. In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country the wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety and without crippling fear.

Rise, Hillary.

Rise.