Maya Angelou dead at 86

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NFS4

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RIP :(


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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.

Angelou had been reportedly battling health problems. She recently canceled a scheduled appearance of a special event to be held in her honor.

Angelou was set to be honored with the “Beacon of Life Award” at the 2014 MLB Beacon Award Luncheon on May 30 in Houston.

Angelou, one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time, is a celebrated poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker and civil rights activist.

She has received over 50 honorary degrees and was Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

Angelou is famous for saying, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Angelou was named one of the 10 most admired North Carolinians in a recent Elon Poll.

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manimal

manimal

Lifer
Mar 30, 2007
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When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.


"When A Great Tree Falls"

RIP


She Truly was a Phenomenal Woman
 
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techs

techs

Lifer
Sep 26, 2000
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This calls for a poem but all I have is a limerick:

There once was a fellow O'Doole
Who found little red spots on his tool
His Doctor a cynic
said get out of me clinic,
And wipe off that lipstick you fool
 
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skimple

Golden Member
Feb 4, 2005
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So does this mean there won't be an 8th made-up autobiography? But how will we know what didn't really happen next?
 
WaTaGuMp

WaTaGuMp

Lifer
May 10, 2001
21,207
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Which 2 famous people will die next, you know, that comes in 3's thing. PLEASE let it be Kim and Kanye.
 
kranky

kranky

Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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The bell has tolled for Angelou,
Her poem-writing days are through.
We’ll have to cope as best we can
With pomes from brianmanahan.
 
Rakehellion

Rakehellion

Lifer
Jan 15, 2013
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techs said:
This calls for a poem but all I have is a limerick:

There once was a fellow O'Doole
Who found little red spots on his tool
His Doctor a cynic
said get out of me clinic,
And wipe off that lipstick you fool
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There was not a dry eye in the house.
 
Platypus

Platypus

Lifer
Apr 26, 2001
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"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

RIP to a giant, sad news.
 
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