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.

[relictele]

I nearly wrecked the car laughing when I first heard those years ago.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Obama wouldn’t go to his Auntie Zeituni’s funeral, but you can bet he will go to Maya Angelou’s.

[demshateGod]

Something tells me she didn’t write that.

[jonathonandjennifer]

Loved it. Fitting tribute, poetic and so true.

[Constitution Day]

Well done!

[Ditter]

Hey dead,
you’re a poet
and I didn’t know it
but you showed it! :)

[timeflies]

Are you kidding? Oprah is getting ready for this one.

[demshateGod]

One of the great scenes in movie history.

[mylife]

☺

[albie]

Not a word about those who’ve lost their lives for freedom but this knucklehead will get a battleship named after her. Soon there will be “Maya Angolou Blvd’s” popping up all over America. They’ll be just as crime ridden as “Martin Luther King Blvds”.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Prose and Cons

[Enterprise]

Oh Maya, how your poems burned brightly
I would stare with awe at your works nightly
But mysteriously, they vanished without a trace
When I tossed your swill in the fireplace

[AD from SpringBay]

As with many poets who ‘make it’, her writing went downhill. I do enjoy Angelou’s earlier work. But then academe fell in love with her voice (which could sound cool), her femaleness, and her African-Americanness.

[februus]

I’m dying of laughter here. That was hilarious!

[IronJack]

I guess the caged bird ain’t singing any more. Thankfully ...

[smokingfrog]

Maybe this will get the misogynist murderer off the front page for a few minutes.

[CitizenUSA]

“I won’t necessarily say good riddance, but it is evident that this woman had zero talent for writing poetry.”

Maybe so, but I just read some of it and found a few I liked. What bothers me is the way the left worships people like Maya Angelou, but I won’t speak ill of the dead. May the Lord have mercy on her.

[Iron Munro]

Who?

Affirmative Action "Poet" who couldn't rhyme CAT wirh HAT.

[BigSkyFreeper]

LOL!

[servo1969]

Are flags gonna be lowered to half-staff?

I’m serious.