The Panopticon Review: What Intellectual and Personal Courage, Commitment, and Compassion Can Teach Us About Art and Life: The Legendary 2006 Public Conversation Between Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

What Intellectual and Personal Courage, Commitment, and Compassion Can Teach Us About Art and Life: The Legendary 2006 Public Conversation Between Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

--Maya Angelou

DAVE CHAPPELLE AND MAYA ANGELOU IN 2006

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In 2006 Maya Angelou and Dave Chapelle had a very important, stimulating and revelatory conversation on the cable television program entitled ICONOCLASTS on the Sundance Channel. Click on the following youtube links below and be duly moved, informed, entertained, and INSPIRED by their powerful/beautiful exchange...

Kofi

Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts Part 1 of 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZIZ5LErB8

Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts Part 2 of 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08zXTyAb6TY

Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts Part 3 of 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaCgtNKqb7E

Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts Part 4 of 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l43cYi3iJI

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

"There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on. That's people like Billie Holiday and I hope that I will be that lucky, but meanwhile, the function, so far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times, whatever that might be."

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Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

What Intellectual and Personal Courage, Commitment, and Compassion Can Teach Us About Art and Life: The Legendary 2006 Public Conversation Between Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle

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