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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

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To: Tijeras_Slim; dead

Me too....I actually googled it.


81 posted on 05/28/2014 7:09:11 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
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To: alancarp
Maya Angelou dead
How long before Øbama orders flags at half-staff, a state funeral and a national day of mourning?
82 posted on 05/28/2014 7:09:17 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: alancarp

Good riddance!!


83 posted on 05/28/2014 7:12:34 AM PDT by Banjoguy
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To: relictele
The funniest was the first one. It was supposed to commemorate the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but "Maya Angelou" instead read a poem lamenting the anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson abandoned the Negro Leagues.

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks,
I'll play with the white boys instead of the blacks.

ROFL.

84 posted on 05/28/2014 7:13:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: humblegunner

LOL!


85 posted on 05/28/2014 7:13:30 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Godebert

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/10/24/racist-maya-angelou-schlepping-for-obama-re-election-sends-campaign-letter-go-rise-up/

I agree with some of what she wrote in that. I do think we should vote and make sure we’re informed before we vote. I also understand how a black person could take pride in the fact that one of them was finally elected president. Additionally, Maya Angelou was certainly old enough to have experienced discrimination herself.

I don’t agree with her political ideology, especially because I think leftism/statism only ends up enslaving blacks again. I also don’t care if she’d hate me or simply dislike me for the color of MY skin. I won’t return hate for hate. That’s a negative, evil thing.

May she rest in peace.


86 posted on 05/28/2014 7:14:01 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (America for Americans first!)
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To: demshateGod

Obama will no doubt declare another day of service in her memory.


87 posted on 05/28/2014 7:15:01 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”

On the basis of that, you can justify anything.

That sounds pretty kin to:

“Do not follow me with your heads, follow me with your hearts.”


88 posted on 05/28/2014 7:15:05 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: alancarp; All

I’ll bet my britches Obama will do a ‘selfie’ reading her book or some such nonsense.


89 posted on 05/28/2014 7:18:14 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


90 posted on 05/28/2014 7:20:08 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: alancarp

Poetry is a tough subject when taken seriously. I will leave it to serious scholars of poetry to decide where Angelou falls within that art. But to hate her works because many liberals praise them, or because she takes pride in her ethnic heritage . . . that ain’t me. Without apology, that ain’t me.


91 posted on 05/28/2014 7:20:42 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: alancarp

I forget, was she the rock or the mastodon?


92 posted on 05/28/2014 7:21:36 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: humblegunner

If I were president, I would give you a medal for that!!


93 posted on 05/28/2014 7:21:47 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: drbuzzard
Someone who was called a poet. You wouldn’t have gotten that impression if you read anything by her.

That was beautifully said. Couldn't agree more.

94 posted on 05/28/2014 7:22:15 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

How about hating her works because she was a hater who desired to have her boot on the throats of white people?


95 posted on 05/28/2014 7:23:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: humblegunner

LMAO!


96 posted on 05/28/2014 7:24:40 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: dead

Sniff. So beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes. (Also: LMAO)


97 posted on 05/28/2014 7:24:56 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: alancarp
We are all products (or victims) of our history and environment and we all react differently to our life experiences.

Maya Angelou was born during a time when prejudice was overt and dehumanizing in much of the country. Subsequently she became successful with writing in spite of not have a college education.

She was obviously angry, maybe she had a right to be. Surely, she thought she did.

Ironically she tried to become a star as a Calypso singer in the 50's like "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan. There will be statues and memorials of her throughout liberal areas.

98 posted on 05/28/2014 7:26:02 AM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: humblegunner; dead
ROFLMAO! YOU GUYS ARE FAMOUS! Someone copied your poems into the comments in the link as "otrwannabe". No freeper by that name. Must be a lurker.
99 posted on 05/28/2014 7:26:32 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I’ll bet my britches Obama will do a ‘selfie’ reading her book or some such nonsense.

Probably order flags at half staff for a week.


100 posted on 05/28/2014 7:26:34 AM PDT by bytesmith
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