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Maya Angelou dead at 86
http://myfox8.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou-dead-at-86/ ^

Posted on 05/28/2014 6:37:40 AM PDT by alancarp

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou has died. She was 86.

Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed Angelou was found by her caretaker on Wednesday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfox8.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: angelou; burntumbercrayon; cagedbird; commie; elderly; freeperlore; goodmorning; ikwtcbs; liberals; maya; mayaangelou; obituary; onthepulseofmorning; poetry; thugculture; wakeforest; winstonsalem
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To: CitizenUSA

he’s no more black than white


221 posted on 05/28/2014 8:59:12 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: alancarp

Ode to Maya

Two roads diverged in a woods,and I-—
Took the one less traveled by,
And missed all the crappy poetry,hence
And that has made all the difference.

With apologies to Robert Frost


222 posted on 05/28/2014 8:59:15 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

She gained fame after starting the angry black woman movement. She had nothing positive to offer. Good riddance.


223 posted on 05/28/2014 9:00:27 AM PDT by fision
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To: dennisw

BUMP!


224 posted on 05/28/2014 9:01:48 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (What Mormons say: "We're Christian!" What they mean: "We're the only REAL Christians!")
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To: alancarp

“The rock, the tree, the hope, the dope”........


225 posted on 05/28/2014 9:07:02 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: dfwgator

best poem ever:
Al Gore reads his Global Warming poem to CNN Reporter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBhMnlXBTE


226 posted on 05/28/2014 9:12:13 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Lockbar

Poet? Bah. Talentless racial hack.


227 posted on 05/28/2014 9:12:46 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dfwgator

BTT!


228 posted on 05/28/2014 9:17:17 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: alancarp

I wonder how long it will be before the President commands that flags be flown at half mast....


229 posted on 05/28/2014 9:19:35 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: alancarp

Whether it is technically true or not, I don’t believe their is a better example of affirmative action.

This no-talent woman was placed on a Leftist helium tank and allowed to inflate way beyond reason to just sub-capacity.

Every time I saw her, the performance was so sub-par I wondered what first grader couldn’t do better.

The idea she had any talent whatsoever is unadulterated pure 100% prime bunk!


230 posted on 05/28/2014 9:29:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: alancarp

RIP


231 posted on 05/28/2014 9:34:02 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: humblegunner

*sniffle* What a great tribute! *sniffle*


232 posted on 05/28/2014 9:40:23 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: alancarp
"TIME fuuooore my CAAAALLING!!!! EEEEXploiTATION, EVERYONE!!!! D'Souza and Oz, start rubbing my feet."


233 posted on 05/28/2014 9:51:05 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: CSM
I wonder how long it will be before the President commands that flags be flown at half mast....

C'mon, C'mon, didn't he already do dat?

234 posted on 05/28/2014 9:53:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: alancarp

.


235 posted on 05/28/2014 9:54:40 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dfwgator

and that all time foavorire “ I hate WIte People”

also:

“Angelou’s musical style was clear in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis’s defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling:

“My race groaned,” she wrote. “It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. ... If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help.”

thats POETRY??? her Musical..Style?


236 posted on 05/28/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: rollo tomasi



237 posted on 05/28/2014 10:06:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
JFK had Robert Frost read a poem at his inauguration.

So Clinton had to invite a black poet for his inauguration.

The difference was that Frost actually wrote poems. The little I have looked at of Maya Angelou's work appears to be words set down on paper with no resemblance to actual poetry.

238 posted on 05/28/2014 10:09:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: alancarp

She used to love to fly on the Concorde.

There’s lots of money to made making up bad Poetry.


239 posted on 05/28/2014 10:16:57 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Cancer were Contagious, they would call it Liberalism...)
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To: alancarp

RIP.


240 posted on 05/28/2014 10:20:02 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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