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NEW YORK (AP) -- Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."
Her story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read memoirs of the past few decades.
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement. The 86-year-old had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982...
Another thread, RWrs already spitting on her grave....anyone surprised?
Another thread, RWrs already spitting on her grave....anyone surprised?
i missed all the adulation when Reagan passed
i'm sure you were appalled at the abuse flung by the Left at him bodecea
i missed all the adulation when Reagan passed
i'm sure you were appalled at the abuse flung by the Left at him bodecea
Have to be honest, I've never read any of her works, but I have read about her and understand her contributions to literature, education, and Black culture are to be lauded. Quite a woman, may she rest in peace...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."
Her story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read memoirs of the past few decades.
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement. The 86-year-old had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982...
University: Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86
In a moving tribute to a woman she called one of the greatest spirits our world has ever known, first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday thanked the writer Maya Angelou for empowering young black women like herself with her clever, sassy words. Angelou died last month at the age of 86. The former president Bill Clinton and TV star Oprah Winfrey were also among speakers and performers at a more-than two-hour memorial service held at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, where Angelou taught for 30 years.
Obama said Angelou taught all women that self-worth has nothing to do with what the world might say. For me, she said, that was the power of Maya Angelous words, words so powerful they carried a little black girl from the south side of Chicago all the way to the White House. Obama added: She touched me, she touched all of you, she touched people all across the globe, including a young white woman from Kansas who named her daughter after Maya and raised her son to be the first black president of the United States.
Maya Angelou in 2008.
The first lady's nine-minute speech was met with a standing ovation. She said: She was the master. For at a time when there were such stifling constraints on how a black woman could exist in the world, she serenely disregarded all the rules with fiercely, passionate unapologetic self. She was comfortable in every last inch of her glorious black skin. But for Dr Angelou, her own transition was never enough. You see, she didnt just want to be phenomenal herself. She wanted all of us to be phenomenal right along side her. In so many ways Maya Angelou knew us. She knew our hope, our pain, our ambition, our fear, our anger, our shame, and she assured us that in spite of it all, in fact because of it all, we were good. And in doing so she paved the way for me and Oprah and so many others just to be our good old black woman selves.
In his speech, Clinton recalled the last time he saw Angelou, a few weeks ago at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act. The former president, at whose 1993 inauguration Angelou read her poem On the Pulse of Morning, told her he was surprised to see her out and about. Angelou replied: Just because I am wheelchair bound, doesnt mean I dont get around. Clinton added: She was without a voice for five years and then she developed the greatest voice on the planet. God loaned her his voice. She had the voice of God and he decided he wanted it back for a while. An emotional Winfrey also spoke, to say goodbye to the woman she called her spiritual queen mother. She was always there for me, to be the rainbow, Winfrey said.
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