Tag / Maya Angelou

by Lexine

Happy Birthday, Maya

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Posthumous birthday wishes today to one of my idols, Maya Angelou! Don’t be surprised that I own a Maya shirt and those books (all thrift store finds, natch).

I can post one of her many great poems or quotes here, but I know I’ll be doing a lot of that here over time, let’s be real. Instead, here’s a clip on her meeting 2Pac for the first time (from her American Masters episode). This interview still tickles me. Six-pack lolol

by Lexine

These Cool Poems – “IWD Edition”

Happy (almost belated) International Women’s Day! I may be late in this (Wednesdays are usually my Mondays in terms of work week, and let’s just say I had a helluva busy “Monday”), but celebrating strong, fearless, and creative women is not limited to one day in my book. In honor of this special day, two poems from two of my idols!

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Poems courtesy of PoetryFoundation.org 
ETA: since copying and pasting the poems above word-by-word from the linked site didn’t display properly for me, I chose to use images of the poems instead.