Well none of you are going to do it .......RIP Maya Angelou

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Thu May 29, 2014 3:32 pm

A sound woman, a strong woman, and a woman who's voice we hear when we don't even know we're hearing it.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu May 29, 2014 5:01 pm

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Thu May 29, 2014 6:44 pm

" the uploader has made this invisible to your country." .............or something or other . Well aint that nice.

OH well.

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu May 29, 2014 7:41 pm

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

- Maya Angelou

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Thu May 29, 2014 8:15 pm

I don't believe in the first premise but the second I've found is true.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 30, 2014 3:16 am

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Fri May 30, 2014 5:44 am

Bruv;1455885 wrote: "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

eeewwhhh that sounded lincoln ish......try a bit harder man !!!!!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 30, 2014 6:55 am

fuzzywuzzy;1455894 wrote: eeewwhhh that sounded lincoln ish......try a bit harder man !!!!!

Here you are then..........

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud."

"I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life."

Trust me........

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated

TÃ½r · Post by **TÃ½r** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:31 am

fuzzywuzzy;1455859 wrote: A sound woman, a strong woman, and a woman who's voice we hear when we don't even know we're hearing it.

I didn't ask the first time this thread popped up, but the BBC has been discussing Maya Angelou today so I thought perhaps I would. Of the four people in the thread - I include myself - which works of Maya Angelou have we collectively red? My contribution to the total is zero.

As an autobiographical novelist she would seem, from all I have observed, to have been an entirely American author with no penetration into the English psyche at all. She would also seem to have had no observable impact on any aspect of feminism in this country that I'm aware of.

When have I ever heard her voice without even knowing I was hearing it?

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:58 pm

Good questions coming from and Englishman.

I first was introduced to Maya Angelou during the late 60s. And read "I know why the Caged Bird Sings" shortly after its first publishing. By then I had read a number of black authors and Poets.

Her poetry speaks to the wounded soul of the American ideal of Liberty and Justice for all.

Maya was far more relevant to the American Experience of the late Twentieth Century than to anyone outside of the US, with the probable exception of the South African people, due to her experience with racism in America in that period.

Though much of what she had to say still speaks to all who would desire to see justice and equality in the world, regardless of race, or country of origin, or religion. Her voice spoke for justice and self respect - two ideals which cannot long exist without each other.