Positivity Pause- #BlackHistoryMonth - Be Courageous !

It’s time for a #BlackHistoryMonth #POSITIVITYPAUSE 🕊

TAKE a moment to inhale for a count of 3, hold for a count of 3, exhale for a count of 3🧘🏽‍♀🧘🏼‍♂🧘🏾

🤎Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist who was known for her powerful writing and speeches. She was the first black woman to have a screenplay produced, for the film "Georgia, Georgia" in 1972. ❤❤

🎇Let’s Celebrate Maya Angelou, and her Positive legacy as a visionary and advocate for civil rights whose words continue to inspire people around the world.🪷

✅ Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, as Marguerite Annie Johnson.

✅ She experienced a traumatic childhood, and did not speak for several years as a result of the trauma.

✅ She worked as a professional dancer, singer, and actress in the 1950s and 1960s, and was part of the civil rights movement.

✅ Angelou's best-known work is her 1969 memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," which tells the story of her childhood and early adulthood.

✅ Angelou was a professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1982 until her death in 2014.

✅ Angelou received numerous awards for her writing, including three Grammy Awards for her spoken-word albums, a National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

✅ In addition to her writing, Angelou was a prominent civil rights activist and worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

✅ She wrote and recited a poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993.

✅ Maya Angelou died on May 28, 2014, at the age of 86.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

-Maya Angelo

⏸Take a Positivity Pause to be COURAGEOUS. Whatever you are wrestling with right now, you have the power to choose COURAGE and meet life head on in spite of how daunting things may seem. YOU CAN DO IT🤎