[WhiskeyX]

Former Liberal friends liked to e-mail with the tagline:

I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou

They made themselves former friends when they demanded no further contact or friendship following the revelation their friend was supportive of the Second Amendment and the responsible use of firearms by juveniles as in my own childhood. They did not appreciate the 1st Amendment right to oppose their own viewpoints with free speech in response to their own speech. Somehow they failed to understand and heed the part of their quotation which said, “but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ve heard that quote often. I doubt very seriosuly it originated with Angelou.

[Albion Wilde]

I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou

After a lifetime of reading poetry (between the ages of 11 and 17, I read all of Chaucer in both contemporary and middle English, and all of Shakespeare; and between 17 and 30, plenty of other poets, ancient and modern), I tried -- twice -- to read her masterpiece, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and failed. Both times. Her writing made me feel bored.

Then I started seeing her on television. And her opinions and presentation made me feel disgusted.