Professional Clip 11: Maya Angelou, 1993 Presidential Inauguration
| Do not be wedded forever |
| To fear, yoked eternally |
| To brutishness. |
| The horizon leans forward, |
| Offering you space to place new steps of change. |
| Here, on the pulse of this fine day |
| You may have the courage |
| To look up and out and upon me, the |
| Rock, the River, the Tree, your country. |
| No less to Midas than the mendicant. |
| No less to you now than the mastodon then. |
| Here on the pulse of this new day |
| You may have the grace to look up and out |
| And into your sister’s eyes, and into |
| Your brother’s face, your country |
| And say simply |
| Very simply |
| With hope |
| Good morning. |