I think we all love Maya Angelou. If any of you don't, I would suggest you should consider her life and her example. Since she was a child, she has known many and great troubles and risen again and again not just to surmount her difficulties but to become better as the result of them. In her adversity, she has found a path to victory. I think she is heroic on the scale of a Nelson Mandela.
In order to explain a little of her victory, I would like to suggest a definition of wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to understand and remember one's emotional experience and readily apply it to the present moment. With that definition in mind, I say that the triumph of Maya Angelou is that she has become a woman of immense wisdom.
Maya Angelou has spent some time in reflection about Hillary Clinton's race for the nomination of the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States. It is posted at Blog Hillary, and I encourage you to read it. She begins:
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou is wise in precisely the way that I above defined it. She understands the affective weight of her own experience, to be written off and then rise again, like a phoenix from the ashes, to triumph over those who had imagined they had finished her. Maya Angelous admonishes us:
This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits end, but she has always risen, always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.
I believe in Hillary Clinton, and I count myself among her friends. I believe in my coming delight. With Maya, let me say to you about our Hillary, "She means to rise." I join my voice with Maya's to say,
Rise Hillary.Rise.
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