Maya Angelou dead at 86

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

[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.

[Revelation 911]

he’s no more black than white

[exit82]

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

[fision]

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

[greyfoxx39]

BUMP!

[Lockbar]

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

[TurboZamboni]

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

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

[hal ogen]

Poet? Bah. Talentless racial hack.

[onedoug]

BTT!

[CSM]

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

[DoughtyOne]

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!

[eyedigress]

RIP

[N. Theknow]

*sniffle* What a great tribute! *sniffle*

[rollo tomasi]

"TIME fuuooore my CAAAALLING!!!! EEEEXploiTATION, EVERYONE!!!! D'Souza and Oz, start rubbing my feet."

[1Old Pro]

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?

[trisham]

.

[MeshugeMikey]

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?

[MeshugeMikey]

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[Kickass Conservative]

She used to love to fly on the Concorde.

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

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.