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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.

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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: Alberta's Child

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


61 posted on 05/28/2014 6:58:15 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: dfwgator

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


62 posted on 05/28/2014 6:58:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: dead

Something tells me she didn’t write that.


63 posted on 05/28/2014 6:58:54 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: humblegunner

Loved it. Fitting tribute, poetic and so true.


64 posted on 05/28/2014 6:59:01 AM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: dead

Well done!


65 posted on 05/28/2014 7:00:03 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: dead

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


66 posted on 05/28/2014 7:00:07 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: alancarp

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


67 posted on 05/28/2014 7:00:08 AM PDT by timeflies
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To: MrB

One of the great scenes in movie history.


68 posted on 05/28/2014 7:00:15 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: humblegunner

69 posted on 05/28/2014 7:00:35 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: alancarp

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”.


70 posted on 05/28/2014 7:01:36 AM PDT by albie
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To: dfwgator
Prose and Cons
71 posted on 05/28/2014 7:02:00 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: humblegunner; NFHale
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
72 posted on 05/28/2014 7:03:34 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: drbuzzard

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.


73 posted on 05/28/2014 7:03:40 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: dead

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


74 posted on 05/28/2014 7:04:01 AM PDT by februus
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To: alancarp

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


75 posted on 05/28/2014 7:04:36 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: ZULU
Maybe this will get the misogynist murderer off the front page for a few minutes.
76 posted on 05/28/2014 7:04:49 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Ouderkirk

“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.


77 posted on 05/28/2014 7:04:50 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (America for Americans first!)
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To: dfwgator
Who?

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


78 posted on 05/28/2014 7:06:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The “fourth estate”has morphed into a 5th column)
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To: dead

LOL!


79 posted on 05/28/2014 7:07:58 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: alancarp

Are flags gonna be lowered to half-staff?

I’m serious.


80 posted on 05/28/2014 7:08:12 AM PDT by servo1969
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