Maya Angelou | Civil Rights | A Plus 4 | 1985

A fascinating and emotional interview with Maya Angelou by respected journalist Mavis Nicholson. In this interview Ms Angelou speaks about going up in America and also the heartbreak she has experienced.
First shown: 23/10/1985
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  • @aalashariatisaravi1066
    @aalashariatisaravi10662 жыл бұрын

    ...whenever I lose my faith in humanity, I watch videos of Maya and all the other beautiful sages...I just wish we had more...

  • @mutumbu-makinenecarreira1617

    @mutumbu-makinenecarreira1617

    Жыл бұрын

    same with me ... I am in seaech of many people ... because of them are still here ❤❤

  • @ogechiinternational8025

    @ogechiinternational8025

    3 ай бұрын

    Always!

  • @thefamousalexbarbour9270
    @thefamousalexbarbour92705 жыл бұрын

    I think of Maya Angelou as the world's fairy Godmother! She is everything to me. A special gift God gave to the world. My oh my...rest in paradise my queen🙏

  • @edhammond6911
    @edhammond69115 жыл бұрын

    She had every reason to hate. But chose to love. And love she did!!She changed a 63-year-old white man’s life. Mine.

  • @acmiranda77

    @acmiranda77

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ed Hammond beautiful are you! Thank you for sharing

  • @akosuanyarko6875

    @akosuanyarko6875

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bless you!

  • @edhammond6911

    @edhammond6911

    3 жыл бұрын

    Akosua Nyarko thank you so much. And may God bless you also. If there was any human being I could sit in the room and talk to you for for five hours it would be MIA

  • @edhammond6911

    @edhammond6911

    3 жыл бұрын

    acmiranda77 Others I just saw this. Thank you and God bless you.

  • @endlesswave2685

    @endlesswave2685

    3 жыл бұрын

    Woooow ! Now i have no words! Congrats Sir!

  • @thatspecialsomeone6190
    @thatspecialsomeone61906 жыл бұрын

    THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I LOVE THIS WOMAN BEYOND UNDERSTANDING!

  • @mariaswan2205

    @mariaswan2205

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree

  • @mariaswan2205

    @mariaswan2205

    3 жыл бұрын

    One wonderful and loving soul.

  • @Chattonism
    @Chattonism Жыл бұрын

    Every interview I see of her is more mind-blowing than the last

  • @perfectlyimperfect6250
    @perfectlyimperfect62505 жыл бұрын

    Dr.Maya Angelu is truly a great role model. Worthy to be emulated

  • @jordintbrown10
    @jordintbrown102 жыл бұрын

    Look at Maya in her younger days, I love how poised she is!!

  • @deloreswillis9224

    @deloreswillis9224

    Жыл бұрын

  • @beadot8629
    @beadot86297 жыл бұрын

    Two amazing ladies in illuminating conversation.

  • @dinacamposlopes

    @dinacamposlopes

    5 жыл бұрын

    Illuminating conversation is such a good expression 👍

  • @tmmdeli
    @tmmdeli7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ThamesTv for posting this. I love and admire Dr. Angelou. I feel cheated never having known her personally. I watch videos of her over and over again because I want to be better and do better. Thank you Ms. Nicholson for the interview.

  • @journeythroughzabyrinth
    @journeythroughzabyrinth4 жыл бұрын

    This interviewer was digging for something, she seemed perplexed about Maya’s self love 💕

  • @janswimwild

    @janswimwild

    Ай бұрын

    Maya and Mavis were very good friends, and Mavis was one of Maya’s favourite interviewers because she asked the questions that challenged.

  • @glennnorman8981
    @glennnorman89812 жыл бұрын

    I love her voice.

  • @kaigeddes
    @kaigeddes6 жыл бұрын

    I am reading right now, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." It is not just about Ms. Angelou's hardships, there is a lot of comedic wit, beauty, and love in there as well.

  • @elizabethwhitley4574

    @elizabethwhitley4574

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kai Geddes ourp

  • @sonjapeltomaki8116

    @sonjapeltomaki8116

    4 жыл бұрын

    And a voice which you just have to listen

  • @Elin-Esteem84

    @Elin-Esteem84

    2 жыл бұрын

    I started reading that book also

  • @deloreswillis9224

    @deloreswillis9224

    Жыл бұрын

    Loved her book..❤

  • @thecreativefamjoy
    @thecreativefamjoy5 жыл бұрын

    I love you so much Dr. Maya. You touch me from deep within beyond words. May your sweet soul rest in peace.

  • @samlsd9711
    @samlsd97114 жыл бұрын

    "When society pushes you back, you should put yourself forward." She's brilliant. The thing about American journalists, ask about the same thing over and over and over.... about the molestation incident.

  • @rosalindmartin4469

    @rosalindmartin4469

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...and you mean to say?... Perhaps you want to say something about yourself ...as in your peculiar choice of monikers...

  • @Visionary848
    @Visionary8482 жыл бұрын

    Oh I just love listening to Maya Angelou, it almost seem as if I know her. I could listen to her daily. There is always a gem 💎. She’s helped me so much

  • @JLeel7
    @JLeel73 жыл бұрын

    I’m convinced Dr. Angelou was a prophet.

  • @dinacamposlopes
    @dinacamposlopes5 жыл бұрын

    The level of transparency she got to is inspirational. 👍

  • @bradlovely6936

    @bradlovely6936

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, you are correct. 👍

  • @xanthirudha
    @xanthirudha4 жыл бұрын

    I love this interview, its like they are best friends

  • @janswimwild

    @janswimwild

    Ай бұрын

    They were very good friends, and Mavis was one of Maya’s favourite interviewers.

  • @consuelaallen4372
    @consuelaallen43726 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this....I adore mavis as an interviewer.

  • @TheJohnpandy

    @TheJohnpandy

    6 жыл бұрын

    When Michael Grade dropped Mavis from Channel 4 I went into mourning. John Sivorn.

  • @ktkee7161

    @ktkee7161

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheJohnpandy Awful man who ruined television. Said she was old and boring (think he was projecting). Mavis provided so much of my early cultural education. Hope she's well.

  • @TheJohnpandy

    @TheJohnpandy

    3 жыл бұрын

    I once met Mavis in the village where she lived in North Powys. She was lovely her book about her relationship with her grandmother was adorable. Jxxx ❤️

  • @k0hi
    @k0hi5 жыл бұрын

    This is such a beautiful interview. Thanks for the post!!!

  • @MichaelAlexander1967
    @MichaelAlexander19676 жыл бұрын

    I'm quite sure that Colin gets to often say, "Look at my Grandma, she's a brilliant & iconic woman. I'm so proud of her!"

  • @adrina911
    @adrina9113 жыл бұрын

    I love May Angelous voice and her books. xoxoxoxox

  • @tanyaperry4006
    @tanyaperry40063 жыл бұрын

    Love her and the Queen that interviewed a legendary #Queen 🤝👸🏽👸🏻☮️💕🙏🏽🦾🦾😇🌎✨💝

  • @lindaross3966
    @lindaross39665 жыл бұрын

    It seems to me in this interview she is trying to find if she ever had a breaking point in her life or why was she so strong and complete

  • @charimireles6720
    @charimireles67203 жыл бұрын

    She's always been my mother in my head.

  • @Catsharks
    @Catsharks6 жыл бұрын

    She's fantastic

  • @Elin-Esteem84
    @Elin-Esteem842 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to her speak forever, I wasn't ready for it to cut off like that. Is there more to this interview, I'd love to see it.

  • @user-tq1mm8gh9e
    @user-tq1mm8gh9e5 жыл бұрын

    @5;40 is "when you know better you do better". Maya.

  • @paradoxsoul248
    @paradoxsoul2485 жыл бұрын

    💗

  • @rationraw5017
    @rationraw50172 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t understand that huge burst of radiant emotions when she talked about her son, then one month later I finished my reading of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. That dull environment of her childhood memories in Stamp, she’s surrounded by warm family members in a hostile white-dominated society, her juvenile, extremely innocent mind(that mindset lasted the whole book despite in the end of the book she was pregnant by a confused, love looking journey. I interpret that as her life was too plain for her advanced mind, she’s trying to figure out her boundary even she’s still a child herself). Her stubbornness kept her trying to absorb wit from a totally strange world. Her loneliness, partly caused by the separation from her parents. Her optimism, she told herself that “see, my life is as adventurous as anyone else. Her rebellion, after defending her mother against Dolores, she ran away and survived in big city alone a whole month. As a child, she didn’t even trying to hold grudge of all those shit happened to her, that deep religious belief that she convinced herself, “I’m good, I’ll continue trying to be good, because I’m loved by God, as a result that mighty existence will protect me against all the true evil in my life. Again, as a child, she didn’t do things to recover from trauma, she didn’t know how. Finally, the impact, or I would prefer to say that a hole, of those big and small mental cuts from Mr. Freeman, his death, Dolores, the ignorance of arrogance white, the ignorance of her people, the hole created by unpleasant experiences filled by the maternal nature as a woman.

  • @tanikapoole
    @tanikapoole Жыл бұрын

    Love this❤

  • @DonnaHall8117
    @DonnaHall81172 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad that Dr. Maya Angelo had the faith to believe that she would get her grandson back 🔙 and she did. Power of FAITH.

  • @sakariamwiiyale7375
    @sakariamwiiyale73753 жыл бұрын

    What a woman!

  • @demarcuswilliams7805
    @demarcuswilliams78057 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @dpcisunbreakable
    @dpcisunbreakable5 жыл бұрын

    In for a penny, in for a pound. I love that!!!

  • @kerethajackson2435
    @kerethajackson24352 жыл бұрын

    This Beautiful Rainbow 🌈 is my role model , now I can say I have one truly ❤ beautiful woman 👩 a Queen 👸 ❤ ♥

  • @youngmeech8691
    @youngmeech8691 Жыл бұрын

    I love her

  • @Ashique4241532
    @Ashique42415325 жыл бұрын

    That lesbian story was such an eye opener, honestly..

  • @sc-bj2fs
    @sc-bj2fs2 ай бұрын

    The child wasnt missing, he was with his mother. The same agony they felt she felt.

  • @cakhashamosley1595
    @cakhashamosley15952 жыл бұрын

    I'm a woman I'm no play thing. ❤💖

  • @munyaradzimunodawafa7745
    @munyaradzimunodawafa77454 жыл бұрын

    a literary giant

  • @ethelwillis7826
    @ethelwillis782618 күн бұрын

    Presentation in Grand Rapids Mi

  • @enricovankeeken1624
    @enricovankeeken16242 ай бұрын

    *i idolize My MOTHER...my dOg..not some film or popstar...if maya were alive, she´d agree with me..Ricky*

  • @lk6457
    @lk64573 жыл бұрын

    interesting how obvious the frequency is is 2021 this frequency is so loud

  • @sdk2350
    @sdk2350 Жыл бұрын

    It's amazing that because of her articulation of words, we can't hear an accent of any kind.

  • @cristianhoward64
    @cristianhoward64 Жыл бұрын

    I love her respect her and admire her, yet I never met her personally. But you can asked me anything about her. And I will probably open up to you

  • @Shhhhh432
    @Shhhhh4324 жыл бұрын

    Ppl from Leys, please help I don’t have clue abt dis🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @sierrajohnson828
    @sierrajohnson8286 жыл бұрын

    B

  • @enricovankeeken1624
    @enricovankeeken16242 ай бұрын

    ?

  • @beneaththecrust4661
    @beneaththecrust4661 Жыл бұрын

    It's a poor dog who doesn't wag his own tail.

  • @skybluegarza2353
    @skybluegarza23533 жыл бұрын

    The interviewer is so disrespectful with Maya

  • @BLISB
    @BLISB6 жыл бұрын

    What a horrible interviewer...... sheesh! Love Maya......

  • @philipcurnow7990

    @philipcurnow7990

    5 жыл бұрын

    BLIS B. Mavis is a great interviewer. Puts the interviewee at ease. Asks some deep questions. Let's her speak. Maya comes across really well as a result.

  • @pattyajones

    @pattyajones

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really? What did you disagree with?

  • @joshuataylor6087
    @joshuataylor60876 жыл бұрын

    I love the earlier Maya Angelou before she got too pontifical.

  • @TheJohnpandy

    @TheJohnpandy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joshua Taylor, she was always political. The politics of hope. Jx

  • @kj7682

    @kj7682

    6 жыл бұрын

    When you are inadvertently great at such a young age and your goal is to keep growing that's what the world will see. You see her that way because of how we revere her. At least, that's what I get from your comment. Update: Never mind, I see what you did there.

  • @joshuataylor6087

    @joshuataylor6087

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes exactly. I never got her because I had only know the Oprah Maya which was so grandiose and puffed up. But in her younger day she was so human, accessible and down to earth and interesting.

  • @jeremym3892

    @jeremym3892

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maya was always accessible and grandiose at the same time. She was never attainable however, she was MAYA freaking ANGELOU.

  • @araisininthesun5958
    @araisininthesun59584 жыл бұрын

    I DO NOT like this interviewer!

  • @mountainlinx
    @mountainlinx4 жыл бұрын

    ❤️