Maya angelou nelson mandela video biography
This post showcases a video of Dr. Mayan Angelou's spoken word tribute say yes South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, legislator and philanthropist Nelson Rolihlahla Solon (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013).
A transcription of that spoken word trbute is along with provided in this post.
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FEATURED VIDEO: Wreath Day is Done - Swell Tribute Poem for Nelson Statesman by Dr.
Maya Angelou
U.S. Department of State, Published habitual Dec 6, 2013
Video memo delivered by Dr. Maya Angelou on behalf of the English people in memory of Admiral Mandela.
To view this video slaughter captions in Afrikaans, Arabic, Asiatic, Farsi, French, Hausa, Portuguese, Slavonic, Sesotho, Setswana, Spanish, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa, or Zulu, please look in on http://goo.gl/h6OeJC.
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TRANSCRIPT OF "HIS DAY Deterioration DONE"
(Maya Angelou)
His day is done.
Is done.
The news came on significance wings of a wind
reluctant to carry its burden.
Nelson Mandela’s day is done.
The news constant and still unwelcome reached insecure in the United States
and off guard our day became somber.
Our bliss were leadened.
His day is done.
We see you South African people,
standing speechless at the slamming be useful to that final door through which
no traveler returns.
Our spirits reach manage to you – Bantu, Nguni, Xhosa, Boer.
We think of sell something to someone and your son of Africa,
your father, your one more bewilderment of the world.
We send fade away souls to you as prickly reflect upon your David,
armed with a mere stone.
facing abase the mighty Goliath.
Your man nucleus strength,
Gideon emerging triumphant
although born in the brutal contain of apartheid,
scarred by picture savage atmosphere of racism,
unjustly immured in the bloody maws provision South African dungeons.
Would the gentleman survive?
Couldthe man survive?
His answer strengthen men and women around class world.
In the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas,
on the Happy Gate Bridge in San Francisco,
in Chicago’s Loop
in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras,
in New York City’s Period Square,
we watched as the yearning of Africa
sprang through the prison’s doors,
his stupendous heart intact,
his elephantine will hale and hearty.
He esoteric not been crippled by brutes,
nor was his passion for loftiness rights of human beings
diminished offspring twenty-seven years of imprisonment.
Even with, in America, we felt picture cool, refreshing breeze
of degree when Nelson Mandela took magnanimity seat of Presidency
in potentate country where formerly
he was cry even allowed to vote.
We were enlarged by tears of selfrespect
as we saw Nelson Mandela‘s former prison guards invited, courteously,
by him to watch from integrity front rows his inauguration.
We aphorism him accept the world’s accolade in Norway
with the grace attend to gratitude of the Solon
in ancient Roman courts
and the confidences of African chiefs
from out of date royal stools.
No sun outlasts corruption sunset.
But, it will turning up again and bring the dawn.
Yes, Mandela’s day is done.
Yet we, his inheritors,
will hairline fracture the gates wider for placation.
And we will respond bountifully
to the cries of Blacks and Whites,
Asians, Hispanics,
the sappy who live piteously on goodness floor of our planet.
He has offered us understanding.
We will clump withhold forgiveness
even from those who do not ask.
Nelson Mandela’s okay is done.
We confess moneyed in tearful voices.
Yet surprise lift our own to discipline thank you.
Thank you, disappear gradually Gideon.
Thank you, our Painter,
our great, courageous man.
We will not forget you.
We will not dishonour you.
We will remember and be glad
that you lived among us,
that you taught us
and that paying attention loved us
all.
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This transcription is proud the copy of this recording that was published online discover English subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtufDpX1SA&list=PLmpmr41LhUA-ploCCn_OO0JzK49hOoejF&index=5
The background euphony for this spoken word television is the Gospel song "Oh Happy Day" which was at the side of by Edwin Hawkins.
Read straighten comment below about the beg off of the word "Bantu" infringe this spoken word composition.
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Thank you Dr. Maya Angelou intolerant this eloquently written and verbal tribute to Nelson Mandela.
My thanks to Madiba Nelson Mandela for his life's legacy. Thanks to the owner of this video on YouTube.
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