Story about Maya Angelou that You Never Heard From The Story About Maya Angelou That You Never Heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STfuNskGtU
1. Describe how you see Angelou using both her courage and her art together to compose her life.

2. What do you think Cicely Tyson means when she speaks of the “power” that Angelou possessed during Angelou’s years of acting and singing in Harlem?

Story about Maya Angelou that You Never Heard and Courage

3. How did the assassination of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., challenge Angelou’s courage and her will to carry on? How do you think you would feel in her place?
4. What do you think it says about Angelou’s character that she re-entered school (divinity school) in the 80th decade of her life?
From His Day is Done

5. What do you see and feel as Angelou recites her exquisitely poignant poem in tribute to Nelson Mandela (one courageous soul paying witness to another)? How does she speak of Mandela’s phenomenal courage?
From Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle: A Conversation Between Generations

6. Speaking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya says that “people live in direct relation to the heroes and the she-roes they have.” What do you think she means by this?
7. What does she say about the kind of courage it took for Malcolm X to change his civil rights message according to the change in understanding he received during his hajj at Mecca? Why is this courageous? What do you think about this kind of courage?
8. Why does she say it is dangerous to make icons of people – or, as she puts it, “to make anybody seem larger than life?” Do you agree or disagree? Why?
9. What does she say is the difference between anger and bitterness? What does she recommend we do with anger?