Maya Angelou, a woman larger than her time has taken a bow from the life stage. Maya Angelou, a poet, a writer, and one of the greatest voices of equality and liberty, has passed away. Her voice may have fallen silent today, but her words live on. The first poem I read by Maya was “Human Family” and I truly adored it. Her memoir “I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings” has influenced me and taught me essential lessons of life. I learned about racism and what it does to its victims, as man I learned a lot about femininity and the female condition, biologically and psychologically, I learned about rape and its destructive effect on the victims, I learned about poverty and life of the poor.
"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." - Maya Angelou
She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace. Growing up amid sexism and violence, she turned her womanhood into a joyful phenomenon. She plunged into the civil rights movement with a series of plays and essays on the American black experience. She captured the resilience of the downtrodden with a few immortal lines from her 1978 verse collection: “You may write me down in history/ With your bitter, twisted lies/ You may trod me in the very dirt/ But still, like dust, I'll rise.”
You are a beautiful rose that lived out its full blossom and left us with an everlasting fragrance and my true inspiration. Rest in peace Maya!
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