Posted on 05/30/2014 6:55:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Flynn calls her “an author more revered than read,” and that gets to the heart of the Angelou phenomenon. I will give her credit, as Flynn does, for playing a role very well. That role was as a victim who rose beyond her victimhood to become an icon. But an icon of victimhood as badge of honor, cultivating a voice, a manner, a persona that embodied dignity, thereby triggering waves of adulation from those who, out of guilt or hope, devoutly wished her to be a giant, so that all who have been a dealt a bad hand at birth could similarly rise and find dignity. She gave the suckers what they wanted. Flynn has got her number:
“I’m not modest,” Angelou explained last year to the AP. “I have no modesty.” She got to know herself, apparently, after getting to know poetry and politics and songs and stage. She usurped her parents’ privilege by renaming herself after finding “Marguerite Johnson” not quite arresting enough. In this spirit, she insisted that others call her “Dr. Angelou” though she never obtained a college degree.
The fact that she turned left – hard left, embracing Fidel Castro, a murderous tyrant who has impoverished and enslaved his people – was a good career move.
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Ever.
Neocommunists are as repugnant as neonazis.
The presstitutes cover up for Commies. Always have.
If she had been white, we never would have heard of her.
Perhaps the worms have finished off Langston Hughes and are ready for another meal.
Is it time yet to talk honestly about Maya Angelou?
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She’s dead, Jim.
There was no need to talk about her when she was alive and useless, why start now?
Now she’s met the Highest Being and I imagine that ‘Dr. Angelou’ is going to come up way short.
LOL! My wife and daughter mentioned it to me the other day that she was gone. My comment of “No loss” garnered me an odd look. They don’t quite get that she was pretty much useless as a poet and even more so as a victim. Bye bye margaret.
MFLR.
There never was a good time to talk about her. She was a socialist/fascist and a pimple on the ass of time.
Who?
As we all shall.
Truly lousy poet, who loved to hear herself TALK forever holding on vowels with agony for the listener. With a faked up name, a Castro apologist (of course—following the Castro edict in the Cuban revolt—”Black man get your blanco women”- Ok’ing class warfare rape of the few unfortunates who could not get out of the country). Who elevated her victimhood to a prize winning level (Oprah anyone LOL). There are so many more humble true stories, black or white of women surviving and conquering abuse without making a career of it.
Lo and behold we find out she kept and used guns in her house for protection. Of course communists/lefties have always had guns and tried to restrict others from having them— (Carl Rowan, Jay Rockefeller with his illegal full auto M-16 in his DC home, etc.)
I never gave her a thought one way or the other. I did think her poetry was boring but then what do I know about poetry?
She was an actress and not a very good one but she played her part to the final curtain call — and a whole lot of people applauded knowing that the whole thing was an act and her poetry was pathetic.
Affirmative Action. Enough said.
Your post just now is much better poetry than anything I ever read that she wrote.
Why, thank you! Yep, and I may upset some FReepers— I thought of her as a commie Rod Mckuen (doh!)
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