Famous Figures
Historical and fictional figures mapped to the sixteen values.
Maya Angelou
Her public presence, which combined documented suffering with insistent celebration of life, and her described capacity to fill rooms with her energy, reflect a Vitality orientation in which aliveness is both a personal practice and a gift to others.
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Her documented personality, which brought explosive life to every social context she entered, and her literary celebration of Black folk culture's aliveness, reflect a Vitality orientation that refused the respectability politics that would have required her to diminish.
Explore Vitality →Rabelais
His Gargantua and Pantagruel, with its celebration of bodily appetite, comic excess, and the full range of human pleasure, is the founding literary text of the Vitality orientation applied to written form.
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