What do you know about the Great Maya Angelou
Gregg Ward
Founder, Center for Respectful Leadership | Award-Winning Best-Selling Author | Speaker | Exec. Coach | Master Facilitator & Culture Change Consultant (he, him, his)
In my workshops and keynotes on respect and Respectful Leadership, I always quote Maya Angelou, the great poet, author, actress, filmmaker, educator, and civil rights activist whom we at the Center for Respectful Leadership consider to be our patron saint. It has been frequently reputed that during a late-in-life interview, she was asked what she had learned about people during her long and distinguished career. It’s claimed she answered by saying…
"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, and people with forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Yesterday, February 15th, 2023 was the 12th anniversary of her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award our great country bestows upon its citizens. This award recognizes those who’ve made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
If any of our citizens earned and deserved the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she did. Won’t you please take a moment to learn more about Maya Angelou. For example, did you know that early in her life she was sexually assaulted and became completely mute for five years, and that she wrote more than 35 books, and that was San Francisco’s first female streetcar conductor?!
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by Gregg Ward | Executive Director at The Center for Respectful Leadership and author of his newest book Restoring Respect
President, The Diversity Training Group Author of “Tackling Toxicity” - new book
1 年Gregg I use the same quote. My daughter is named after her. You are so spot on.
Senior Human Resources Executive
1 年I had the pleasure of meeting Maya Angelou on several occasions during my college days because she lived next door to one of my favorite professors at Oxy and she would drop into our classes on occasion to bring us a perspective that was real and valuable. She was a joy to be around, and the stories she & my professor would tell gave you a very intimate history of Black Americans over the years. I still have the pictures of the day Maya Angelou, Roscoe Lee Browne & James Baldwin sat in on our Black History class! Amazing...