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The Amazing Dr. Maya Angelou | Episode #434 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria. Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: find me there. Now. Today's episode honors the legacy the
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  Speaker 1: life of doctor Maya Angelo like all of my talks,
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  Speaker 1: I want to inspire you to make a difference in
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  Speaker 1: your own life so that you can make a difference
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  Speaker 1: in the lives of others. Just like doctor Maya, I
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  Speaker 1: also want to equip you with ideas, information and resources
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  Speaker 1: that you can use in your life and so you
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  Speaker 1: can share the wealth with others. In fact, one of
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  Speaker 1: my goals with these episodes is to share the wealth
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  Speaker 1: so that folk in countries and in places in the US,
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  Speaker 1: and in places outside of the US where there are
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  Speaker 1: a few books or little access to them or other
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  Speaker 1: similar kinds of resources can listen in and get what
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  Speaker 1: they need. In my travels, I'm actually astounded to see
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  Speaker 1: more cell phones than books these days. Now I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about cell phones in countries that have no libraries, okay,
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  Speaker 1: or very very distant access to libraries. But let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something else. With a cell phone, you can listen.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually listen in to this podcast and to
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  Speaker 1: other podcasts and share the information so that you get
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  Speaker 1: all of these great resources. I just love technology. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get an amen? Especially when it's put to good use? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, if you are so inclined, you
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  Speaker 1: can share the wealth with the people in your circle,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you happen to be on the po it. Now
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  Speaker 1: back to doctor Angelo. Now, most of you know that
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  Speaker 1: she was an amazing poet and writer, but did you
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  Speaker 1: also know that she was an actress, director, filmmaker, humanitarian,
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  Speaker 1: mom and so much more. As many of you know,
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  Speaker 1: during the month of February in the United States, we
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Black History or Black Heritage Month. Well, you know me,
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  Speaker 1: I celebrate the lives of all people all the time,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who they are. I just love celebrations, and
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  Speaker 1: I especially love to celebrate the soulful lives of African
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  Speaker 1: Americans Black lives every single day three sixty five, twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to seven. So who is Maya Angelo? Well, as
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  Speaker 1: I just mentioned a few moments ago, she's an incredible poet, writer, actor, director, filmmaker, humanitarian,
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  Speaker 1: and I dare say, amazing human being. Miss Maya's poetry
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  Speaker 1: and prose shines the light on what it means to
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  Speaker 1: be human. Now, she was honored to write and share
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  Speaker 1: a poem for President Bill Clinton's inauguration to shine the
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  Speaker 1: light on what it means to be human. Doctor Angelo
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  Speaker 1: was also honored and blessed to write a poem to
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  Speaker 1: shine the light on the life of one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite people on the planet, and that's Nelson Mandela, a
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  Speaker 1: man who also deeply understood what it means to be human.
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  Speaker 1: I want to share this poem with you because there
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  Speaker 1: is so much of Maya's life tucked into her writing,
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  Speaker 1: her values, what she believed, what she stood for, who
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  Speaker 1: she stood for, who she stood with, lessons from history
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  Speaker 1: and shining rays, the shining sunlight of her dreams, what
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  Speaker 1: she dreamed of for our future, for the future of
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  Speaker 1: human kind. This poem, My Angelo's poem from Adiba, was
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  Speaker 1: written to pay tribute to him upon his death. It
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  Speaker 1: is called his day is done. His day is done,
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  Speaker 1: is done. The news came on the wings of a
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  Speaker 1: wind reluctant to carry its burden, Nelson Mandela's day is done.
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  Speaker 1: The news expected and still unwelcome, reached us in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and suddenly our world became somber, our skies
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  Speaker 1: were leadened. His day is done. We see you South
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  Speaker 1: African people standing speechless at the slamming of that final
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  Speaker 1: door through which no traveler returns. Our spirits reach out
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  Speaker 1: to you, Bantu Zulu joshah boor we think of you
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  Speaker 1: and your son of Africa, your father, your one more
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  Speaker 1: wonder of the world. We send our souls to you
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  Speaker 1: as you reflect upon your David, armed with a mere stone,
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  Speaker 1: facing down the mighty Goliath, your man of strength, Gideon,
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  Speaker 1: emerging triumphant. Although born into the brutal embrace of apartheid,
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  Speaker 1: scarred by the savage atmosphere of racism, unjustly imprisoned in
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  Speaker 1: the bloody maws of South African dungeons, would this man survive?
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  Speaker 1: Could the man survive? His answer strengthened men and women
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  Speaker 1: around the world. In the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: on the Golden gate Bridge in San Francisco, in Chicago's Loop,
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans Marti Gras, in New York City's Times Square,
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  Speaker 1: we watched as the Hope of Africa sprang through the
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  Speaker 1: prison's doors, his stupendous heart intact, his gargantuan will, hail
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  Speaker 1: and hearty. He had not been crippled by brutes, nor
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  Speaker 1: was his passion for the rights of human beings diminished
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  Speaker 1: by twenty seven years of imprisonment. Even here in America,
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  Speaker 1: we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom. When Nelson
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  Speaker 1: Mandela took the seat of presidency in his country, where
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  Speaker 1: formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were
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  Speaker 1: enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's
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  Speaker 1: former prison guards invited courteously by him to watch from
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  Speaker 1: the front rows his inauguration. We saw him except the
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  Speaker 1: world's ward in Norway, with the grace and gratitude of
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  Speaker 1: the solon in ancient Roman courts, and the confidence of
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  Speaker 1: African chiefs from ancient royal stools. No sun outlasts its sunset,
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  Speaker 1: but it will rise again and bring the dawn. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Mandela's day is done. Yet we his inheritors, will open
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  Speaker 1: the gates wider for reconciliation, and we will respond generously
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  Speaker 1: to the cries of blacks and whites, Asians, Hispanics, the
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  Speaker 1: poor who live piteously on the floor of our planet.
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  Speaker 1: He has offered us understanding. We will not withhold forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: even from those who do not ask. Nelson Mandela's day
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  Speaker 1: is done. We confess it in tearful voices. Yet we
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  Speaker 1: lift our own to say thank you, thank you, our Gideon,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, our David, our great courageous man. We will
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  Speaker 1: not forget you. We will not dishonor you. We will
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  Speaker 1: remember and be glad that you lived among us, that
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  Speaker 1: you taught us, and that you loved us all. I
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  Speaker 1: just love this poem as I love Nelson Mandela, what
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  Speaker 1: he stood for, what he died for, how he gave
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  Speaker 1: his life to his country for the sake of a
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  Speaker 1: free South Africa, how he gave himself to the world
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  Speaker 1: really as a statesman. I remember when I was in Africa,
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  Speaker 1: when he was still alive. I traveled to Kenya and
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  Speaker 1: to South Africa in that season, and I remember asking
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  Speaker 1: some of the young people in Kenya because I was
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  Speaker 1: so excited to be so close to South Africa at
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  Speaker 1: that time. I asked the young people, I said, so,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about Nelson Mandela? And they said who?
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  Speaker 1: And so I repeated the question because I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they didn't quite understand what I said. I said,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about Nelson Mandela? And they said
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  Speaker 1: who is he? And I realized that these young people
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  Speaker 1: really didn't know who I was talking about. My word,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much that we take for granted, so much
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  Speaker 1: that I take for granted, and one of those things
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  Speaker 1: is infrastructure, the infrastructure of information, the availability of information,
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  Speaker 1: the access to information. And what I realized is that
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  Speaker 1: these young people and some adults had not heard of
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  Speaker 1: this amazing man because they had little access to the
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  Speaker 1: kind of information I take for granted. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the core reasons that I'm wanting to make this podcast
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  Speaker 1: available in Kenya, in South Africa and Nigeria and Ghana,
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  Speaker 1: all places I've been, and other places throughout Africa, throughout
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  Speaker 1: Asia and Australia, throughout the rural communities in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: in South America, Central America. Please, I ask you to
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  Speaker 1: help me. I can't do this on my own, so
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  Speaker 1: I invite you to help me. If there are people
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  Speaker 1: that you know who like this podcast, help us, help
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  Speaker 1: us all get connected. This podcast is not just for
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  Speaker 1: the people who have easy access, easy access to books,
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  Speaker 1: to the Internet, to other resources, but maybe, just maybe
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  Speaker 1: they have easy access to a cell phone, right, So
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  Speaker 1: help me share the wealth and spread the word. So
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  Speaker 1: Maya Angelo. Miss Maya has fans all over the world,
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  Speaker 1: many many millions of fans. She also has her critics.
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  Speaker 1: Now why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Her critics say she writes poems with lines that are
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  Speaker 1: really short. Her critics say she uses words that are
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  Speaker 1: really simple. So what are they really saying? I say
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  Speaker 1: they have read, but perhaps not understood. I say they
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  Speaker 1: have consumed, but have they chewed. They've read but not
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  Speaker 1: sampled or savored the many, many lives and layers of
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maya. Maybe maybe they've tasted, but they've not digested, metabolized.
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  Speaker 1: They've not appreciated the very ground on which she stands.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maya's words are poignant and powerful. In this poem
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  Speaker 1: that I just shared with you, his day is Done,
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  Speaker 1: she does the same thing as in her other poems.
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  Speaker 1: She pays tribute to what it means and what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to be human. Whether she's writing about women or men,
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  Speaker 1: or children, or anything else she cares about. She writes
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  Speaker 1: as all writers do, by putting the right words in
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  Speaker 1: the right order. At the end of the day, that's
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  Speaker 1: what poetry is, the right words in the right order.
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  Speaker 1: That is the beauty of poetry. And we all need
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  Speaker 1: beauty in our lives. We all need beauty in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We need the shimmering rays of beauty that comes through poems.
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  Speaker 1: I love what Jack Kerouac says about poetry. He says,
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  Speaker 1: don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it.
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  Speaker 1: Use poetry and t s. Eliot says, genuine poetry can
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  Speaker 1: communicate before it's even understood. Genuine poetry can communicate before
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  Speaker 1: it's even under stood. Naomi shihab Nai is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite poets. This Palestinian American poet says, the real
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  Speaker 1: heroes of race and culture would always be the people
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  Speaker 1: who stepped out of their own line to make the
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  Speaker 1: circle larger. I love that the real heroes of race
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  Speaker 1: and culture would always be the people who stepped out
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  Speaker 1: of their own line to make the circle larger. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's that's what we're here for,
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  Speaker 1: to step out and make the circle larger. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: we are here to love, learn and serve, to share
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  Speaker 1: beauty and to pass it on, to pass it on
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  Speaker 1: to someone else, to pass it on to the next generation.
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  Speaker 1: By doing so, we make a difference in our own
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  Speaker 1: lives and in the lives of others every single day.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Miss Maya did in her life. She is
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  Speaker 1: a model, an exemplar of what I mean by legacy living.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Angelo didn't just count the days in her life.
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  Speaker 1: She lived each day to make her life count. In
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  Speaker 1: a New York Times article, poet Elizabeth Alexander shares a
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  Speaker 1: lovely moving story about her encounter with Miss Maya. Now,
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  Speaker 1: although she never met the elder poet, Alexander stepped into
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  Speaker 1: the same shoes, the same exact shoes, when she was
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  Speaker 1: named inaugural poet for President Barack Obama's election. She says,
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  Speaker 1: Maya Angelo called me on the telephone. Before she said
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  Speaker 1: her name, I recognize the voice, lustrous, deliberate, precise addiction,
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  Speaker 1: well known to me from countless elders. She spoke in
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  Speaker 1: the rich chest voice of a grandmother singing a song
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  Speaker 1: at bedtime. Now did she call me child? I felt
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  Speaker 1: like she did, for her words and voice drew me close.
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  Speaker 1: I was attempting to write the inaugural poem, agonizing spinning
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  Speaker 1: in the thickets of the task at hand. We spoke
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  Speaker 1: for a good long while. Oh, I really don't remember
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  Speaker 1: the substance of what she said, only the even reassuring
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  Speaker 1: tone of her voice that made this task seem possible.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander goes on and says, I recall a sentiment that's
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  Speaker 1: often attributed to doctor Angelo. If you have a song
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  Speaker 1: to sing, who are you not to open your mouth
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  Speaker 1: and sing to the world? You see singing Your song,
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  Speaker 1: in her world view, should be as natural as breathing,
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  Speaker 1: even if, as she did, you struggled to come to voice,
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  Speaker 1: and poetry is as close as human beings could get
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  Speaker 1: to song. At the end of their conversation, Miss Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: asked Miss Maya if she would be coming to Washington
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  Speaker 1: for Inauguration Day. She says that Maya gave a good
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  Speaker 1: long laugh. Oh no, my dear, I've done that before.
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  Speaker 1: I shall turn on my television, open a bottle of wine,
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy a potage of my own preparation, and I
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  Speaker 1: shall laugh and cry and sing mum mm mmm mmm mm.
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  Speaker 1: There is so much weight, so much weight and gravity,
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  Speaker 1: and what Maya shared. Elizabeth Alexander breaks it down in
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  Speaker 1: her own word. She says, such exquisite formality married with
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  Speaker 1: mother Wit. This formality coupled with mother Wit, characterized her
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  Speaker 1: prose as well as her poetry. Formality that says, I
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  Speaker 1: have mastered the language and its elocution. And there are
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  Speaker 1: stakes in that mastery from people who were assumed to
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  Speaker 1: be unworthy of culture and of citizenship. And then Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: discusses that lovely word potage. In fact, she is positively
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  Speaker 1: delighted by Maya's use of such words, and what a
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  Speaker 1: great exam of the formality. Intermingled with Angelo's mother wit,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Alexander declares, isn't potage much more interesting and unexpected
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  Speaker 1: than soup?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is, indeed it is. Thank you, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Alexander. We all know that doctor Maya has crossed
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  Speaker 1: over to the other side, and as our fellow poet
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  Speaker 1: and sister friend Nikki Finney says, surely there are many
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  Speaker 1: many saints waiting to greet her and welcome her over
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  Speaker 1: to the other side. Even though Miss Maya has made
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  Speaker 1: it over, we know that her spirit will always be
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  Speaker 1: with us. In her book A Sung Flung Up to Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: don't you just love that title? A Song Flung Up
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  Speaker 1: to Heaven? Maya writes the sixth book of her autobiography,
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  Speaker 1: her memoir. In this historic book, she poses an essential
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps what became for her a perennial question. She asks,
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  Speaker 1: how did it happen? How did it happen? Lifting her
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  Speaker 1: voice to the ancestors and to God and to the ages,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Angelou asks, how did it happen that we could
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  Speaker 1: nurse a nation of strangers be maids to multitudes of
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  Speaker 1: people who scorned us, and still walk with some majesty
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  Speaker 1: and stand with a degree of pride. Doctor Angela responds,
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  Speaker 1: we had come so far from where we started and
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  Speaker 1: weren't nearly approaching where we had to be, but we
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  Speaker 1: were on the road to becoming better. And to that
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  Speaker 1: I say Amen and Hallelujah and praise the Lord. Few
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  Speaker 1: people know that doctor Angelo was active in this country,
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  Speaker 1: in the United States and abroad, active in civil rights
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  Speaker 1: struggles and in the civil rights movement right here in
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  Speaker 1: the US. In fact, she gave her support to two
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  Speaker 1: giants in the US civil rights movement, Malcolm X and
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Both of these men
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  Speaker 1: were shot down, they were assassinated. And when that happened,
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  Speaker 1: like so many of us around the world, when Doctor
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  Speaker 1: King was assassed scinated, Angelou was devastated. It's reported that
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  Speaker 1: she withdrew and cocooned herself until activists and fellow artist
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  Speaker 1: and writer James Baldwin reached out to her at a dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Amidst the glimmer and shimmer of New York's literati, something
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  Speaker 1: steered within Maya, something something reawakens her passion for writing rekindles,
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  Speaker 1: and doctor Angelo's friends encourage her to write again, to
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  Speaker 1: begin to write about her life, and so she does.
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  Speaker 1: In the final paragraphs of her forward to I Dream
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  Speaker 1: a World, Angelou writes of black women, about our grandmothers
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  Speaker 1: and great grandmothers. But you know what, she just as
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  Speaker 1: well have been writing about herself. Miss Maya writes, the
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking tenderness of Black women and their majestic strength speak
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  Speaker 1: to the heroic survival of a people who were stolen
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  Speaker 1: into subjugation, denied chastity, and refused innocence. These women have
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  Speaker 1: descended from grandmothers and great grandmothers who knew the lash
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  Speaker 1: first hand, and to women whom protection was a phantom
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  Speaker 1: known of but seldom experienced. Speaking of the seventy five
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  Speaker 1: women who like her, are featured in Brian Lanker's work
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  Speaker 1: I Dream a World, miss Maya writes, their faces are
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  Speaker 1: captured here for the ages to regard and wonder, But
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  Speaker 1: they are whole women. They are whole women. Their hands
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  Speaker 1: have brought children through blood to life, nurse the sick,
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  Speaker 1: and folded the winding cloths. Their wounds have held the
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  Speaker 1: promise of a race which has proven in each challenging
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  Speaker 1: century that despite threat and mayhem, it has come to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Their feet have trod the shifting swampland of insecurity, yet
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  Speaker 1: they have tried to step neatly on to the footprint
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  Speaker 1: of mothers who went before. They are not apparitions, They
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  Speaker 1: are not superwomen. They are not larger than life. Their
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  Speaker 1: humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to
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  Speaker 1: enter the photographs and enter the spirit of these women
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  Speaker 1: and rejoice in their courage and nearness, precious Jewels, all
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  Speaker 1: thanks thanks to their persistence, art, sublime, laughter, and love,
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  Speaker 1: we may all yet survive our grotesque history. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maya is speaking in the forward to I dream
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  Speaker 1: a World. Thank you, Thank you, doctor Maya Angelo, for dreaming,
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  Speaker 1: for dreaming your world, our world. Born on April fourth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen in Saint Louis, Missouri, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, she
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  Speaker 1: changed her name to Maya, a name given to her
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  Speaker 1: by her brother Bailey. Miss Maya, precious Jewel, that you are,
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  Speaker 1: may your mighty and well traveled and wise soul, rest
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  Speaker 1: in peace shalom. We lift you up and celebrate you.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrate you during Black Heritage Month and every single day,
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  Speaker 1: today and every day, we celebrate the luscious, marvelous, majestic,
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  Speaker 1: magnolia scented music of your life, and we express our
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  Speaker 1: deep and abiding gratitude. We thank you for showing us
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living is all about. As you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love to celebrate Black history not only during the month
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  Speaker 1: of February, but every single day three sixty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: before I close today, I want to thank each of
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  Speaker 1: bit about my journey with what legacy living is all about,
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  Speaker 1: not just living and learning, but living and learning and
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  Speaker 1: serving so that you make a difference in your own
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  Speaker 1: life and in the lives of others. It's about being
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  Speaker 1: on purpose every single day. Three sixty five twenty four
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  Speaker 1: your life count. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess,
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll
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  Speaker 2: life count. That's what legacy living is all about. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day and be sure to make it
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  Speaker 1: of your life. Make the days in your life count.