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28 May 2014, 11:45 am

Famed African American poet Maya Angelou has passed away. She taught us why the caged bird sings.

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28 May 2014, 11:59 am

Sorry to hear that.She was from Stamps Arkansas,I've been there before.

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28 May 2014, 1:41 pm

I've read some of her works--profound, yet accessible.

I was sad when I found out she passed away.

She was quite healthy until recently.

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28 May 2014, 3:43 pm

an eloquent voice is now silenced.

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28 May 2014, 5:49 pm

This did NOT happen.

Now I am unhappy.

God takes the best, and leaves us Howard Stern, Miley Cyrus, and Rush Limbaugh......where is the justice?!

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28 May 2014, 6:00 pm

RIP Dear Maya

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28 May 2014, 7:08 pm

She left a great legacy, and an indelible imprint on the world.

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28 May 2014, 9:32 pm

Sylkat wrote:

This did NOT happen.

Now I am unhappy.

God takes the best, and leaves us Howard Stern, Miley Cyrus, and Rush Limbaugh......

:cry:

I didn't even know they wrote poetry ! !!

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28 May 2014, 9:46 pm

I meant people who could do anything with their lives, their fame, their ambition, and who waste it all on silliness and superficiality, whereas Dr. Angelou had abuse, poverty, discrimination, fear, fought it all, and became the splendid woman that every woman looks up to.

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29 May 2014, 1:37 pm

Sylkat wrote:

Oh. Good thing, I don't think i could stomach poetry by Howard Stern.

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30 May 2014, 7:53 am

Don't think it too tragic. She lived 86 years and died in her sleep. I think she got pretty lucky.

She lived an excellent life, left behind a good body of work, and now she's debating social problems (possibly over a good wine) with John Steinbeck in the Great Ivory Tower in the Sky.

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30 May 2014, 4:16 pm

I'll just leave this here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0[/youtube]

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01 Jun 2014, 12:03 pm

Thank you, Cornfłake.

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