Interview with Maya Angelou for "The Great Depression"

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  • @2bleavin
    @2bleavin 8 років тому +132

    I had no intention of watching all of this, but she's just so infectious gracious and captivating its impossible to not stop listen or fully engage in what ever story shes telling , I miss her...

  • @samansiddiquie1902
    @samansiddiquie1902 Рік тому +5

    I wish there was a complete archive of everything she has ever written and said. If it’s captured on film or record it should be made accessible to everyone all over the world. Her wisdom and humanity was truly a treasure. She’s not just an American treasure. She’s very much an international treasure. I sit here in Pakistan reading her books, watching her interviews and educating myself about not just racism and slavery. But a black person’s life in America back then. Does it affect me? Not in experience, no. But absolutely in my humanity. I’m humbled by her honestly and lack of bitterness. I’m moved by her eloquence and kindness.

  • @7GreasySpoons
    @7GreasySpoons Рік тому +4

    so glad Ms. Angelou finished the Joe Louis fight reading. Today, most don't know his impact. He was more than a king.

  • @AlfaEricWashDC
    @AlfaEricWashDC 7 років тому +40

    How beautiful and honest is she. I really miss her. So elegant and graceful. How can a person be so real? I love her.

  • @rrjeanskylar
    @rrjeanskylar 5 років тому +65

    Her voice, her laugh and the way she tells stories is very contaigous.

  • @islandslimting8959
    @islandslimting8959 8 років тому +30

    This is like looking at someone with a full soul..or filled with soul and not afraid to show it or share it. To God be the glory!!

  • @rainbowyellow7348
    @rainbowyellow7348 Рік тому +3

    I love how wise she was. And I lost my mom, so when I listen to her I feel like a child standing next to her mother and listening to her wise words. I miss that warmth.

  • @cumberlandquiltchic1
    @cumberlandquiltchic1 7 років тому +29

    I love this lady.i could listen to her speak forever. Brilliantly emotional, educated, animated. So worldly, yet deeply simple and down to earth. Someone I constantly learn from. You make me want to be a better woman....

  • @heavymetalloverz
    @heavymetalloverz 10 років тому +65

    I LOVE HEARING THIS WOMAN TALK. LISTENING TO HEAR READ I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SING WAS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE. HER WAY WITH WORDS ARE JUST.... I CANT EVEN EXPLAIN.

  • @MAC_WVLF88
    @MAC_WVLF88 2 роки тому +7

    Her voice is one of the best voices I’ve heard in my life

  • @natashamay8693
    @natashamay8693 5 років тому +14

    I love everything about this inspiration! her tone, her humour, even her quick attitude I wish I could've met her! Thank you for sharing!!

  • @audreyvanya2040
    @audreyvanya2040 7 років тому +19

    She is thee woman & i still look up to her even as she had passed on..Her spirit leaves all.

  • @jjuneau1976
    @jjuneau1976 4 роки тому +17

    I love this woman! I can feel her words in my soul!❤💜

  • @TheDoveLady
    @TheDoveLady 10 років тому +52

    I grew up in Stamps Ark.about 20 years later than Maya did and I lived down the street from that little store. There was still prejudice against the blacks in my day. I remember going to church Sunday School at the Baptist Church and they were talking about how they sent missionaries to Africa to convert the black people there. Well, I just had to ask them this. How is it that we care to convert them and those blacks that are here, we don't even want to come to our church? No answer.....Just silence.....All of that time that I lived there, I never heard of Maya Angelou. It was while I lived in California that someone said to me, "Oh you grew up where Maya Angelou lived" so then I found out something I should have already known. Sometimes I think of going back to visit Stamps, Ark to see what it is like there now.

    • @proflob
      @proflob 10 років тому +5

      it is sad that people are ignorant of their own heritage. Especially when it comes to such a diamond as Maya Angelou

    • @acajudi100
      @acajudi100 4 роки тому +1

      Treat everyone, like YOU want to be treated! You cannot create a fake virus, take away the incomes of the world, have evil laws,and expect peace. NOT!
      Get those $20,000.00 checks to the households, and $2,000.00 per month for training and working online. Do the right thing or reap what you have sown.
      You can fool some of the people some of the times, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. God is in charge, and He is not happy! BEHAVE and DO THE RIGHT THING NOW!!!
      ua-cam.com/video/f3Gbidz3OcE/v-deo.html

    • @jamalboyd8110
      @jamalboyd8110 4 роки тому

    • @arttez8068
      @arttez8068 3 роки тому +1

      @@proflob Thats what you got from this comment? Typical.

  • @rrbaggett7
    @rrbaggett7 5 років тому +9

    What a remarkable woman! Her vivaciousness, her ebullience for life is so simultaneously breathtaking & inspirational. I have long loved Dr. Angelou & shall always long to hear-- and *feel* -- her distinctive voice. She remains a treasure to us all. Bless your beautiful soul, Marguerite!

  • @consuelaallen4372
    @consuelaallen4372 9 років тому +77

    Sweet language I love that

    • @audreyh6628
      @audreyh6628 4 роки тому +1

      this totally blew my mind. I had never thought of it like this before but its so true

  • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
    @user-mj8nf2vp7q 3 роки тому +8

    Whenever I need some wisdom and comfort Miss Maya never disappoints. Her legacy continues to soothe the soul in perpetuity.
    👍🏽💯🤗

  • @rachealmutesi5124
    @rachealmutesi5124 3 роки тому +8

    What a phenomenal woman!
    Amazing reader!
    Love love

  • @lizliz4186
    @lizliz4186 4 роки тому +6

    It's a beautiful day when Ms Dr Maya Angelou pops into my feed. Thank you Maya. ❤️ I'm glad you shared with us. Thank you ❤️ I'm glad to taught us. Thank you ❤️. You are missed and cherished. Keep working from beyond ❤️

  • @veraphobecreations
    @veraphobecreations 8 років тому +46

    I wish our generation understands why they should never forget where we come from.

    • @barrett7893
      @barrett7893 2 роки тому +1

      Amen to that!! What a wonderful woman. I can listen to her all day long. What an amazing Soul she has. She truly is missed. In a world full of lies and brother turning against brother. We need her more than ever!!

  • @alphacenturai4658
    @alphacenturai4658 5 років тому +17

    I need to read every book she's ever read or written.

    • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
      @user-mj8nf2vp7q 4 роки тому +2

      ...I promise you that you won't forget it! 👍🏽💯

  • @anthonydef3000
    @anthonydef3000 2 роки тому +3

    Maya is the greatest of all time✊🏾

  • @adriansanders1702
    @adriansanders1702 4 місяці тому +1

    HOLLA BEBE...PEACE AND PRAISE 👏 🙌 🙏 GOD BLESS

  • @Beautifulross3966
    @Beautifulross3966 3 роки тому +3

    2021, What a Precious Gracious Honorable Woman she was!

  • @Linnie210
    @Linnie210 4 роки тому +13

    I wish I had known this lady - our grandmother. So wise and poised. I can feel the pain and happiness in her voice. Truly missed. The interviewer is awkward, not the right person to do this interview as you can sense he is defensive about her black experience.

  • @cecilepovich3861
    @cecilepovich3861 5 років тому +9

    My God,what a gift
    this soul carried to
    us.

  • @ihaiarongonui8003
    @ihaiarongonui8003 3 роки тому +3

    The most finest peaceful soul as maya angelou is. She brings peace to me just listening to her a true queen of humanity 🙏🏽❤️

  • @jasonraymond1638
    @jasonraymond1638 3 роки тому +6

    Maya Angelou is a master of her craft. At time 46:07 where she says, "I have to do this..you can cut it if you want." You get the sense that at her core there was as raging urge to set things right by telling the full story. How whites saw blacks and the "accusations" needed to be juxtaposed with the indisputable knockout from Joe Lewis that followed! The poem is entitled “Champion of the World” and is the nineteenth chapter in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

  • @barrett7893
    @barrett7893 2 роки тому +2

    What a amazing woman God bless her. She has such an amazing stories. I could listen to her all day long.. RIP 💜 💜 💜

  • @iniakalitoni3405
    @iniakalitoni3405 3 роки тому +3

    She is so humble... she was told to start her sentence all over again and she humbly and graciously did so. Some people would have been flipped off

  • @rachelbaker2657
    @rachelbaker2657 8 років тому +11

    Maya so fascinating and her lovely voice so enchanting that the "interviewer's" interruptions rankles one and grates nerves.

  • @HARLOWETV
    @HARLOWETV 8 років тому +6

    I love you Maya Angelou! Thanks so much for posting!

  • @tozomona
    @tozomona 2 роки тому +1

    I just love her. Admire her. Miss her. xoxox

  • @racheltemple3332
    @racheltemple3332 9 років тому +8

    absolutely brilliant

  • @cecilepovich3861
    @cecilepovich3861 5 років тому +3

    How comforting to hear her voice,reading to me,and to you.

  • @oliviergoethals4137
    @oliviergoethals4137 Рік тому

    Thx you for Being.

  • @raeannewoodman9375
    @raeannewoodman9375 7 років тому +4

    I enjoyed listening to her talk as much as I have enjoyed reading her books.

  • @aseaofhoney4171
    @aseaofhoney4171 9 років тому +13

    ......A real Shakespearian soul......Bravo Maya! RIP

  • @sinesipholusizi7269
    @sinesipholusizi7269 3 роки тому +2

    I find it really special to be watching this video on her birthday day(04-April)... Wow

  • @flip1980ful
    @flip1980ful 6 років тому +5

    #❤️it ,1992 film tech and all! I will listen to all she has for me however it comes. Thanks!

  • @lori8553
    @lori8553 4 роки тому +3

    She was a extremely intelligent and wise woman. Her stories are thought provoking. If you listen to her or read her poetry you will always come away with a new perspective.
    I could see her as a fine representative of truth.

    • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
      @user-mj8nf2vp7q 4 роки тому

      I am so in agreement with you! Her writing and voice are a balm for my soul during a much needed time.

  • @susanacruz1530
    @susanacruz1530 2 роки тому +2

    I could listen all day.❤️

  • @gloriaagyare6472
    @gloriaagyare6472 2 роки тому +1

    Maya Angelou is so inspirational. Her strength stems from a deeper place! I love her! Remarkable woman. May her beautiful soul rest in Perfect peace

  • @kathri1006
    @kathri1006 4 роки тому +4

    I also admire the way she describes the universal reaction of the oppressed towards the oppressor. The fear, the dread , sagging of the shoulders and the knowledge they are coming to get you.
    This is the same in the beaten wife , abused children, or in any oppressed group.
    This is the same in the wars of the powerful against the defenceless. It is a human reaction. We need to understand the humanity in these acts and if the Newtonian laws are true there is a similar opposite reaction.

  • @campoida
    @campoida 5 років тому +5

    Great story teller.

  • @simexperience
    @simexperience 5 років тому +2

    I truly loved this video. Very informative. What a blessing. Queen Angelou world treasure.

  • @tammardacosta7094
    @tammardacosta7094 2 роки тому +3

    Her speaking voice was so unique...this was a great interview, minus the interviewer, who seemed inpatient at times..loved it💯

  • @school6023
    @school6023 2 роки тому +4

    She did AMAZING the entire time. The ppl ….. ALL the ppl involved in this interview/recording etc aside from Maya were totally out of line to have so many damn mistakes and issues with sound & video etc it’s ridiculously embarrassing for THEM that they are even in the business and able to do this interview with such a talented person who they intended to make feel like she was doing something wrong.
    SHAME ON THEM- SHE DID GREAT

  • @kanikanewsome6305
    @kanikanewsome6305 2 роки тому +1

    I ❤ her

  • @ericamalone3329
    @ericamalone3329 2 роки тому +1

    History has to be told so it can remain to be fixed for future Generations. She is such a strong woman! I could imagine her poem "Still I Rise" when hearing about all our people had to endure. I enjoyed her reading at the end. She is Such a gifted beautiful courageous black woman! A woman of God! I admire her in so many ways! Thank you Lord for blessing us with her presence and words of wisdom💞

  • @LeahDaisyxx
    @LeahDaisyxx 2 роки тому +1

    I have listened to someone so captivating. Her voice, grace and knowledge is impeccable. She definitely queen 🤴 of hearts ♥️ God bless her

  • @fuscia_travels
    @fuscia_travels 9 років тому +41

    I speak the sweet language, I even kinda sing when I speak, most white people, find it weird. Turns out I'm not weird at all.

    • @pattyajones
      @pattyajones 4 роки тому +1

      Please cite your source for "most white people" comment?

    • @Tony-md7dk
      @Tony-md7dk 4 роки тому +1

      @@pattyajones the source is prejudice

    • @lyzawhitney
      @lyzawhitney 3 роки тому

      I adore the sound of it, and how loving it comes across. It doesn't come naturally to me, but I feel so blessed to hear it.

  • @shurlas
    @shurlas 9 років тому +6

    I Love Her!!!

  • @jessicaparham6902
    @jessicaparham6902 8 років тому +17

    I'm in love with her.

  • @DonnaHall8117
    @DonnaHall8117 2 роки тому +1

    Outstanding!!! I watched the entire clips and bloopers. Wow!!! Amazing Woman 👠 Dr. Maya Angelo is someone that I learn from until this day. A Phenomenal Woman indeed with class and Great Education against all odds. I aspire to do likewise. #MrsDonna

  • @BaldwinFanonGarveyTureShakurX
    @BaldwinFanonGarveyTureShakurX Рік тому +1

    "Again?! Am I talking that much?" 😂 She IS truly a treasure to this world.

  • @folukeoyedeji9213
    @folukeoyedeji9213 2 роки тому +1

    Wow! I loved this woman. ❤ Will love to meet her in Heaven.

  • @dorisharris3253
    @dorisharris3253 8 років тому +10

    Years ago l was a tela marketing for certain company. We were on the phones asking for donations of certain household items. l remember that the most and best donation came from the black. The so-called Hoods,and ghettos. We got a regular pay but you could get bonuses if you could get a certain amount.l had to learn my lesson the hard way
    when l first started. The high society part of town with the doctors and lawyers were the worst!

  • @hayerubihayerubi5720
    @hayerubihayerubi5720 2 роки тому +3

    I was looking for Metallica songs, , then come across this , Brilliant ,such strong intelligent kind wise lady , can’t wait to hear more content 😊👍

  • @bradlovely6936
    @bradlovely6936 2 роки тому +3

    This interview gives such a deep and poignant insight into Dr. Angelou's formative years and those relatives who cultivated her to be the mega-iconic W O M A N she means to the world today! #TRUE_LEGEND. Her culturally-transcendent influence and conceptual power shall never ever wane. 🙏

  • @myimperfectdiary890
    @myimperfectdiary890 8 років тому +14

    This the first time am hearing about my black history on UA-cam this is sad . This explains a lot why my people are so behind

  • @kathri1006
    @kathri1006 4 роки тому +3

    Here Ms Angelou beautifully describes among many things, through child's eyes, the cultural differences of segregation the lack of refinement in the whites who thought they were very superior just because .
    I didn't think they had innards. They did not talk the sweet language. Every action was cruelty, injustice, so they couldn't be. I read about white people in other lands, I understood them. I didn't connect those people with white folks.
    Such frankness and raw truth.
    Shows us the importance in distinguishing the quality of peoples.

  • @luckyleonardes
    @luckyleonardes Місяць тому

    Are we ever gonna be this blessed?

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Рік тому

    Thank you Dr Maya Angelou.

  • @kimbritt4719
    @kimbritt4719 5 років тому +2

    WOW!!! 👂 👂 👂💖

  • @mihaelamihai6024
    @mihaelamihai6024 Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤simply speechless!!I adore u and I will always adore u!!u teaches so many beautiful things about the meaning of life and not only !!!

  • @415vernell
    @415vernell 7 місяців тому

    This was spiritually gratifying in every sense of the saying ☝🏾😮‍💨🔥

  • @saundradewey2031
    @saundradewey2031 8 років тому +7

    35:00 she let out a genuine laugh!

  • @abside30glu
    @abside30glu 8 років тому +8

    Interview with Maya Angelou for "The Great Depression"
    Tender loving, sweet classy lady... Lovable and kind that's
    a very difficult to forget color of her personality.
    That was Dr. Maya Angelou.
    happy easter
    Apr 2, 2016

  • @martl3288
    @martl3288 3 роки тому +1

    I see why she was loved i fell in love today with this beautiful women

  • @stormyskyz7881
    @stormyskyz7881 4 роки тому +4

    The feeling that a black man could hold a world title.... yes...

  • @LouisvilleKyrich
    @LouisvilleKyrich 2 роки тому +1

    Hobos slept under bridges and over-passses nxt to the tracks back in the 80s when i was a kid.. i had a few i used to talk to when i was a kid..
    I used to take them can soda and food when i was a kid

  • @sheismoretv8039
    @sheismoretv8039 2 роки тому +2

    Even in her agitation with the producer was elegant, a great treasure profoundly missed.

  • @RoyalPayne-b7n
    @RoyalPayne-b7n 7 місяців тому

    ❤her voice and listening to her speak about motivating education made me want to go back to school and finish. I could listen to her, Morgan Freeman and James E. Jones forever just talking about anything❤

  • @shaunboyle3428
    @shaunboyle3428 3 роки тому +2

    I have just found Maya Angelou she is amazing. Can someone tell me which book she is reading from at the end, or what book i should start with first

    • @tommytillis3172
      @tommytillis3172 3 роки тому +1

      You should read all of them! But I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry are a really good place to start! Enjoy!💞

  • @jeffreyrichardson
    @jeffreyrichardson 5 років тому +1

    She has a very peaceful voice...

  • @MarthaRewitereinga1
    @MarthaRewitereinga1 8 років тому

    The negative comments are all but the issues that are them not and never will be Maya Angelou a beautiful and remarkable lady whom God shone the light on for us to believe we too can be just as great a person as she r.i.p lovely lady ☺💖

  • @luzvasquez874
    @luzvasquez874 8 років тому +27

    Maya Angelou, Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther king, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and among others; were, are and will be, for ever and ever a present from God to the world.

    • @dominiquejames9092
      @dominiquejames9092 5 років тому +5

      Luz Vasquez Gandhi was a Racist! He expressed extreme disdain for black South Africans and I will never in a million years put his name next to the greats you just mentioned

    • @raerae7463
      @raerae7463 5 років тому +4

      @@dominiquejames9092 Thank you!

  • @josephcecilhornesmithjunio1426
    @josephcecilhornesmithjunio1426 5 років тому +2

    💟Beautiful and More!‼️🔆

  • @cashcheckorcredit7
    @cashcheckorcredit7 4 роки тому +2

    #Queen 👑

  • @rochellewarren6219
    @rochellewarren6219 2 роки тому +1

    💜💥

  • @proflob
    @proflob 10 років тому +10

    she is the woman

  • @jeffreyrichardson
    @jeffreyrichardson 7 років тому +2

    amen

  • @CallmeXtina80
    @CallmeXtina80 4 роки тому +3

    it's incredible to think that north americans went to europe to fight nazism which was pretty much identical with segregation (as far as they knew, since the general public didn't know concentration camps existed)

  • @petrichor649
    @petrichor649 3 роки тому +1

    Maya had the best voice....

  • @11Kralle
    @11Kralle 9 років тому +9

    This is just amazing and interesting! The whitefolks never using the longue-dulce/sweet-language made me think.
    We germans use the sweet language never in public - only in private love or to distress (thus using it as harder than the hard language). I don't really know about all the other Europeans, but that must have been sooo creepy for a little black girl in a segregated world - consider this: all those emigrants and decendants of white colonists were literally competing violently with each other that much, their mutual disgust, bad feelings, humiliations and dispare had just one "legitimated" exit for relief: the - nowadays "ethnic" called - afro-americans and other minorities.

  • @Toasavili
    @Toasavili 8 років тому +15

    What I'd give to be in the room... She's captivating

  • @michellec9284
    @michellec9284 10 років тому +8

    41:03 AMAZING.
    I loved the whole thing. HOWEVER. You MUST listen to her read an excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, about Joe Louis. Blew me away.

  • @ramose83
    @ramose83 3 роки тому +1

    This woman is indeed camptivating ....

  • @purpleboy4949
    @purpleboy4949 3 роки тому +1

    18:00 education
    22:20 great depression
    saving this for later

  • @Sundryoption
    @Sundryoption 10 років тому +1

    hell yeah

  • @cecilycrewe6702
    @cecilycrewe6702 7 років тому +2

    Very interesting. It's all a part of history

  • @chynnhowe
    @chynnhowe 8 років тому +5

    I wonder what she would say about the state of us now.

  • @joannap2019
    @joannap2019 8 років тому +2

    wow

  • @gerrimiller3491
    @gerrimiller3491 2 роки тому +1

    Some folks still say, " you people "! Slavery still exist in souls. Keep praying to God to not allow other people's hatred consume you

  • @yvettewaritay2654
    @yvettewaritay2654 2 роки тому

    WOW! ❤️ 030922

  • @PaulKitching11
    @PaulKitching11 4 роки тому +1

    21:33 - So interesting. Inequality. Indignation right there. True.

  • @voltorb2944
    @voltorb2944 9 років тому +12

    She is the CUTEST thing. I've ever seen!

  • @TheNyakaat
    @TheNyakaat 3 роки тому +1

    My daughter's name (whenever I have a daughter) SHALL BE MAYA!!!

  • @forevergreen37
    @forevergreen37 4 роки тому +1

    All I can at the beginning was geez someone get that queen some water