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A Great Lady – Maya Angelou passes
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A Great Lady – Maya Angelou passes
Writer, poet and civil rights campaigner Maya Angelou has died aged 86.
She won acclaim for her first autobiographical memoir ‘I know why the caged bird sings‘ as it narrated her life between the ages of 3 and 17. A further six autobiographies also achieved a large and appreciative audience as they covered different parts of her life.
She began working with Malcom X in 1965 and after his assassination began working with Martin Luther King. She was devastated by King’s death and was encouraged to begin writing her memoirs.
In 1993 she was invited to write and deliver a poem for Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration and when Barack Obama was elected president she declared: “We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism”.
Obama would honour her with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 and quoted her words, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
A truly great woman that connected with countless people across race, gender and class… and always with such graciousness. “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.”
Previously on TheJudge13:
March 12th 2013 – Lewis: Expressions of angst, or ‘seeing the light’
Lewis the angry
Has Lewis morphed once more? During the 2011 season Hamilton appeared to be an individual consumed by rage and petulance. The starkest of a number incidents that year was when he appeared to lose control of his emotions and common sense during the Monaco GP.
