[music] [music] >> A lot has been said, and I could very well say I've nothing useful to add. But I'll say something. And what I'm going to say will be contextualized in the environment where I am present.Still I rise is a poem written by Maya Angelou in the year 1978. And prior to that poem in the year 1969, Maya Angelou wrote a book I know why the caged bird sings. And those books were written out of experience.Maya Angelou grew in Arkansas in the United States during the days of the Ku Klux Klan. She gre ...