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Maya Angelou, was at best once upon a time a pretty good poet. Then as we all know Bill Clinton came along with his pandering to the Blacks and elevated Maya to a semi-goddess position. Oh,that horrid poem she wrote for Clinton's Inauguration! Oprah Winfrey couldn't give Maya enough face time on her TV show with the mentor thing.

So I would say some people are stuck with "Angelou of writing a book full of "empty phrases and sweeping generalities . . . dead metaphors ("sobbing embrace," "my heart fell in my chest") and clumsy similes ("like the sound of buffaloes running into each other at rutting times"). And "Maya has obviously made her choice. If you come and you make even the racists feel comfortable and you aren't asking for any fundamental [social] change, you're going to get a fat check," she told the Voice.

IMHO, we have here at Free Republic, The Poetry Branch of Free Republic, far better poets than Maya Angelou, who can't hold a candle to anyone of the poets here!

She could have done so much to help Black people, now she panders with the others, shame, dirty shame. Money is green, is green, is green.