SOURCE 1 You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, Still I Rise You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. , 1928 – 2014

Does my sexiness upset you? You may write me down in history Does it come as a surprise With your bitter, twisted lies, That I dance like I’ve got diamonds You may trod me in the very dirt At the meeting of my thighs? But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Out of the huts of history’s shame Does my sassiness upset you? I rise Why are you beset with gloom? Up from a past that’s rooted in pain ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells I rise Pumping in my living room. I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides, Leaving behind nights of terror and fear Just like hopes springing high, I rise Still I’ll rise. Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise Did you want to see me broken? Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, Bowed head and lowered eyes? I am the dream and the hope of the slave. Shoulders falling down like teardrops, I rise Weakened by my soulful cries? I rise

I rise. Does my haughtiness offend you? ------Don’t you take it awful hard (CNN) -- Here is a look at the life of Grammy- ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines winning author and poet Maya Angelou. Diggin’ in my own backyard. Personal: Birth date: April 4, 1928 Death date: May 28, 2014 Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri 1960 - Writes, produces, directs and performs in a musical revue, "Cabaret for Freedom," to raise Birth name: Marguerite Annie Johnson money for the Southern Christian Leadership Father: Bailey Johnson, a doorman Conference (SCLC). Succeeds Bayard Rustin as the northern coordinator for the SCLC. Mother: Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, a nurse 1961-1962 - Moves to Cairo, Egypt, and Marriages: Paul de Feu (1973-1980, divorced); becomes associate editor of the Arab Observer. Tosh Angelos (1950-1952, divorced) 1963-1966 - Moves to Ghana as an assistant Children: Clyde "Guy" Johnson, 1944 administrator for the School of Music & Drama at Education: Attended California Labor School, the University of Ghana and also works as 1942 feature editor for the African Review. Timeline: 1970 - "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is 1931 - Her parents divorce and Angelou is sent, published. It is later broadcast on national with her brother Bailey, to live with paternal television in 1979, with a script and musical grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps, score written by Angelou. Arkansas. 1972 - Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for "Just 1935 - Angelou and brother Bailey move to St. Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie." Louis to live with their mother. 1972 - Becomes the first African-American 1936 - Is raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. woman to have an original screenplay produced Freeman. After Angelou confides about the rape as a movie for "Georgia, Georgia." to her brother and testifies at Freeman's trial, 1975 - Appointed to the Bicentennial Freeman is found beaten to death, apparently at Commission by President Gerald Ford. the hands of Angelou's uncles. Stops speaking in public for five years as a result of her guilt and 1975-1976 - Member of National Commission belief that her words had caused Freeman's on the Observance of International Women's murder. This is the basis for her first Year. autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird 1977 - Appears in the television mini-series Sings." "Roots." 1942 - While a high school student, studies 1981 - Appointed lifetime chair as Reynolds drama and dance on scholarship at the California Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest Labor School, a college for adults. Drops out to University. become San Francisco's first female African- American cable car conductor. January 20, 1993 - Recites her poem "" at the inauguration of Bill 1950s - Nightclub performer at the Purple Onion Clinton, becoming the second poet to participate in San Francisco, Mr. Kelly's in Chicago, and Blue in a president's inauguration after Robert Frost Angel and Village Vanguard in New York. read at President John F. Kennedy's 1961 1954-1955 - Tours Europe and Africa as Ruby in ceremony. a State Department-sponsored production of February 1993 - Wins Grammy for Best Spoken "." Also, teaches modern dance in Word or Non-Musical Album for "On The Pulse Italy and Israel. Of Morning." 1957 - Her only recorded album, "Miss Calypso," is released. March 1995 - Wins Grammy for Best Spoken By Max Fox Word or Non-Musical Album for "Phenomenal Woman." 05.02.13 Word Count 754 October 16, 1995 - Recites poem "From a Black Woman to a Black Man" at the Million Man March in Washington. 1998 - Film directorial debut for "." 2000 - Receives the National Medal of Arts. February 2002 - Wins Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for "A Song Flung Up To Heaven."

2006-2010 - Hosts a weekly show for Oprah Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl who was Radio on Sirius XM Radio, formerly XM radio's shot in the head by the Taliban in October, "Oprah and Friends." resumed her education in March, enrolling in a January 21, 2008 - Is the keynote speaker for new school in England. the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Virginia Tech. The Taliban targeted Malala because she campaigned for education rights for Pakistani February 15, 2011 - Awarded the Presidential girls. Gunmen opened fire on her in a school bus, Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. but she was quickly airlifted to a hospital. Five August 30, 2011 - Angelou is critical of the new months later, she is fully healed and attending Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the Mall in Edgbaston, a girls school in Birmingham, Washington, DC. She says the paraphrased quote England, with the world at her back. about King being a drum major for peace, justice and righteousness makes him sound like an Bulletproof Determination "arrogant twit." Federal officials later announce that the controversial inscription will be Malala made a swift recovery from surgery that removed. involved fitting a titanium plate to her skull and 2013 - Her eighth autobiographical book, "Mom installing a cochlear implant to help her regain & Me & Mom", a tribute to her mother and hearing in her left ear. After only five months in grandmother, is published. the hospital, she was strong enough to return to May 28, 2014 - Passes away at her home in school and defy the Taliban, showing it will take North Carolina. more than a bullet to the head to keep her from getting an education. ------"I am excited that today I have achieved my SOURCE #2 dream of going back to school," Malala said in a statement given to Time magazine. "I want all Taliban shooting victim girls in the world to have this basic opportunity. I goes back to school, in miss my classmates from Pakistan very much, but I am looking forward to meeting my teachers England and making new friends here in Birmingham." Proudly wearing a pink backpack over her school wrath. On Oct. 9, gunmen stopped the school bus uniform -- a green sweater with the Edgbaston Malala was riding, asked the other children to insignia and a blue skirt -- along with a point her out, and fired a bullet into her skull. headscarf, Malala expressed thanks and Two other girls were wounded. optimism in a video released on the Guardian Malala was stabilized first at the top military website, calling her first day back at school her hospital in Pakistan and then transferred to "happiest moment." specialists in Birmingham. The Pakistani government was forceful in denouncing the Learning How To Change The World attack. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said "I will hold my books, my bag, and I will learn. I it was "an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack will talk to my friends, and I will talk to my on education, and on all civilized people," vowing teacher. I think there's no more important day "the work that she led was higher before God than this day," Malala said. "I want to learn about than what terrorists do in the name of religion. politics, and about social rights, about the law. I We will continue her shining cause." want to learn how to bring change into this The backlash unnerved the Taliban. It took the world." unusual step of trying to positively spin the The teenage Malala is already well on her way. attempted murder of a child. "She was pro-West, She initially gained recognition in Pakistan and she was speaking against Taliban and she was beyond when she was only 12 by writing a calling President Obama her ideal leader," popular blog on the BBC's Urdu-language Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman, claimed website. She chronicled her experiences as a in a statement aimed at justifying the attack. schoolgirl in the Swat Valley, a region of Pakistan Millions of Pakistanis rejected this reasoning, then coming under Taliban control. The Taliban however, rallying and marching to support had issued an edict banning education for girls, Malala and pray for her recovery. and began bombing girls schools. The Taliban’s attempt to keep Malala from Writing under the pseudonym Gul Makai ("corn getting an education has now backfired. Not only flower" in Urdu, an official language of Pakistan), is Malala alive and bravely continuing her Malala exposed the violence and uncertainty of campaign, but Nov. 10 was named Malala Day to daily life in Swat, standing up to the Taliban’s focus attention on the world’s estimated 32 intimidation of ordinary people and adding a million girls who are denied schooling. She is human dimension to the political and military now the youngest Nobel Peace Prize nominee coverage that had been the only news coming ever. A publisher offered her $2 million to author out of the Swat Valley at the time. a book about her life and the struggle for girls’ education. She will have to write it in between Targeting A Schoolgirl homework assignments. After the Pakistani army won back control of the region, Malala put her international recognition to work, campaigning for girls’ education. But the remaining Taliban, unable to strike back against the army, picked Malala as a target for their