https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 08 May 2026 02:41:00 +0000 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:55:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3674 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70333&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70333 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:55pm

As if you weren't already part of it by allowing this website to continue to function. ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:55:40 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70333&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70333 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70323&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70323 Author: Maya
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:35pm

Oooooh, maybe I should have said no - I'm aiding and abetting procrastination... ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:35:18 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70323&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70323 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70322&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70322 Author: aimeejoy
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:33pm

Nikkis just happy shes got something to do instead of her assignment! ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:33:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70322&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70322 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70316&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70316 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:27pm

No way! I'll copy it now and hopefully send it tomorrow... gotta get to post office anyway.

PM your address ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:27:03 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70316&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70316 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70311&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70311 Author: Maya
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:24pm

Don't know it, but would love a copy! I can give you some $$$ for the CD and postage.

When Maya was born I used to play that Leeann Womack song "I hope you dance" for her all the time and dance with her - yes I am a total geek She won't let me now tho - her fave atm is "Black and Roses" (actually Guns and Roses lol) November Rain, and she's quite a fan of Nickelback and Greenday.]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:24:06 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70311&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70311 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70306&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70306 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:21pm

Ooo I lied... it's called "I'll rise" - track 13
]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:21:13 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70306&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70306 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70304&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70304 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:19pm

I'm pretty sure it's called "Still I rise" Just to make things complicated.

It's on the "Welcome to the Cruel World" album]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:19:30 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70304&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70304 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70299&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70299 Author: Maya
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 3:13pm

What song is it Nikki? I don't know if I've heard it or not?]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:13:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70299&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70299 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70290&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70290 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 2:44pm

Woah, just took some time to actually read Phenomenal Woman. It's really really cool.]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:44:17 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70290&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70290 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70289&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70289 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 2:42pm

Ahhhh Ben Harper used her poem for a song. I love it.

Have you heard it Emma? If you want I can burn a copy of the CD and send it to ya.

She sounds like an awesome woman. ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:42:21 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70289&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70289 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70284&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70284 Author: Maya
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 2:35pm

Thank you Maree I was getting there...(very slowly, as with everything else I do these days ) ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:35:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70284&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70284 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70262&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70262 Author: AnnC
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 11:47am

cool poem and she is so true in what she has learned. I think as long as when the mistake happens you learned from it then it was meant to happen. Lifes just one big test and learning curve it depends how we face it and learn from it.. thats our chioce.]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:47:35 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70262&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70262 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70261&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70261 Author: emeldee
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 11:46am

and one of my favourites....

Phenomenal Woman
     
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Maya Angelou ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:46:41 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70261&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70261 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70260&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70260 Author: emeldee
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 11:43am

Still I Rise
     
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

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.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:43:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70260&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70260 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70246&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70246 Author: Maya
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 10:47am

Yep, she is my biggest influence as a writer. When I get time I will post the poem of hers that I chose for Maya's baby book, it's called "And Still I rise".

She is such a wise soul, and has had the most amazing life. She grew up dirt poor in Arkansas during the depression and has been a tram driver, a prostitute, an actress, a singer, a single mum, a writer.... ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:47:19 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70246&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70246 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70241&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70241 Author: newmum
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 10:14am

Maya Angelou is such an inspiration. An amazing woman.

I think (correct me if I'm wrong...) that Emma was inspired by her enough to name Maya after her??? ]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:14:27 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70241&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70241 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70233&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70233 Author: aimeejoy
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 9:44am

Awww.....]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:44:07 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70233&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70233 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70231&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70231 Author: my2angels
Subject: 3674
Posted: 05 September 2006 at 9:40am

I thought this was so true!

In April, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 70+
birthday.Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older.
And, there on television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding
body changes, she said there were many, occurring every day...like
her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist,
first. The audience laughed so hard they cried. She is such a simple
and honest woman, with so much wisdom in her words!
Maya Angelou said this:
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems
today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way
he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and
tangled Christmas tree lights."

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your
parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

"I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as
"making a life."

"I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a
catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open
heart, I usually make the right decision."

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be
one."

"I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch
someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."

"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."!]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:40:19 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3674&PID=70231&title=maya-angelou-words-of-wisdom#70231