Maya Angelou: courage, character, and leadership

The leader sees the greatness of others. If she only sees herself, he will not be a leader. ~ Angelo Umaya

Maya Angelou left us this week, but her words continue to guide us and continue to stimulate us in the coming decades. She is a brave woman, often brave. Her life is a colorful experience. I borrowed Wikipedia and learned about Angelou's career.

At the age of 8, when living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by a man named Freeman, her mother's boyfriend. She told my older brother that he told the rest of the family. Freeman was convicted but sentenced to just one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered. Probably Ang's uncle. "I thought my voice killed him, I thought he killed him because I said his name, then I thought that I would never speak again due to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues wrote a biography about Angelou, during this silence that Angeou gave her a wonderful memory of her book and her: the literary love and the world around her Ability to listen and observe.

After becoming a young man's career, she became a poet and writer, including fried chefs, prostitutes, nightclub dancers and performers, opera actors Pogy and Beth actors, and Southern Christian leadership conference coordinator It was. And a journalist of Egypt and Ghana during the colonial era. She is a drama, film, actor, author, director, and producer of public television programs.

This week's Washington Post reported some memorable quotes from Angelou. This is my favorite two. One is courage and the other is how she works.

People do not have the courage. I will develop it. So that people are not planning to pick up 100 pounds of rice, then you develop it by doing something small and brave. If this is the purpose of a person, that person chooses a 5 pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, etc. until one person actually accumulates enough muscles to pick up 100 pounds Is recommended. This is the same as courage. You brave things, doing little things, but spending some effort - spiritually, I think, spiritual effort

I have hotel rooms in all the towns where I lived. I borrowed the hotel room for a couple of months, left the house at 6 o'clock and tried to go to work before 6:30 am ... I did not sleep so I allowed the hotel to change beds did not. When I stayed at 13:30 or 30 o'clock, I tried to breathe after going home and I was watching a job for about 5 weeks, but I had a nice quiet and nice dinner. Two Please return to work in the morning. Sometimes at the hotel, I will enter the room, there will be a note on the reading floor, Dear Miss Angelow, let us change the sheets. I think it is moldy. But I only allow them to enter and empty the trash. I insist that everything is falling out of the wall. I do not want to do anything. I went into the room and felt that all my beliefs were interrupted. Nothing becomes me.

courage. Maya Angelou born in the 1930s experienced racial discrimination and difficult times. As a very young girl, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. But this devastating trauma does not tell me who Maya Angelou is. Instead, she turned anger and sadness into power. Maya Angelou thinks that everything we try should be courageous. She said, "Courage is the most important of all virtues, for if you do not have the courage, you can not do other virtues consistently."

Maya Angelou is welcomed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature thanks to a gentle verbal language, courage and self-acceptance. With the ability to overcome racial discrimination and class discrimination, Angelou has reached out to all readers, men and women, blacks and whites, not due to the color of the skin, but to others I will talk about how to recognize.

When Maya Angelou passed away at home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the world lost great writers, poets and civil rights activists. I lost an excellent student in leadership and creative process - he understood the way to have courage to teach, has a close relationship with the most famous world leader in her life, and only the poet You can express the courage and firmness you can achieve. Although it is difficult to catalog everything about truth virtue Angelou and leadership, here are some of the most memorable things of her work, her interviews (especially Paris Review and Harvard Business Review). Twittersphere's most poetic feed