For greater visibility, reposting a beautiful post from SunShine22: (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

In early 2008, during one of the roughest months of Hillary Clinton's political career, her longtime friend Maya Angelou wrote her a poem.

Maya Angelou, the African-American poet who is one of the most influential and respected literary voices of the modern age, has written a poem praising Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for The Observer....
Angelou is steadfast in her loyalty to Clinton. She said recently: 'I made up my mind 15 years ago that if she ever ran for office I'd be on her wagon. My only difficulty with Senator Obama is that I believe in going out with who I went in with.'

The 79-year-old poet was the centrepiece of Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 when she read her poem On the Pulse of Morning, playing on the idea of a new political dawn. Last week she handed this new poem over to the Clinton campaign.

Angelou's poem is entitled "State Package for Hillary Clinton" and it's worth repeating today:

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.

Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her.

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you're born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies. Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to be what it can become.

She declares she wants to see more smiles in the family, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. She is the prayer of every woman and man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy.

She means to rise.

Don't give up on Hillary. In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country the wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety and without crippling fear.

Rise, Hillary.

Rise.

Originally posted at Hillary HQ

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411764/-Throwback-Thursday-Maya-Angelou-Praises-Hillary-Clinton via Daily Kos. (THANK YOU, SunShine22!!!)

[ismnotwasm]

1. One of my favorite poems ever

This is a lovely, and meaningful endorsement

[shenmue]

2. Yes!

[SunShine22]

3. Thank you!

Thank you DeepModemMom, I just arrived at DU and didn't have enough posts to make this an original post. I love this poem!

[DeepModem Mom]

4. WELCOME, and thank you so much for the inspiration your post brings to us!!!

[freshwest]

10. Welcome, SunShine22. Great DKos page. Hope to see more of you here in the HRC Group. n/t

[yallerdawg]

5. Thank you, DMM and SS22, for this, too:

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Thank you SO much for posting the video, which I missed including!!!! n/t

[yallerdawg]

7. I hope you all don't mind!

When I see something outstanding in your posts and links, I try to add to thread - for the casual visitor.

Judging from GD and GDP, it appears a lot of people (everywhere) can't get past the headline and title - very often they miss the good stuff!

Maya Angelou is the good stuff!

[freshwest]

8. These lines I find particularly striking:

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

And then there's this:

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female...

But to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies.

That last part is how we should live:

A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies.

That first part is like the poem IF:

If - By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!

Or a Woman, in this case. This as much the example of Hillary, Obama and Bernie to us all. Thanks to you and Sunshine.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Reading those passages you selected, I got goosebumps all over again! Wonderful. n/t

[Cha]

11. Mahalo SunShine! Thank you for this, DeepModem Mom!