You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

- Maya Angelou

Random Fact

In 1993, Maya Angelou became the first African American and the first woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration. She read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s inauguration.

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