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Evelyn Diaz: Remembering Dr. Maya Angelou On Her Birthday
Maya Angelou would have been 87 years old day, and to commemorate her birthday we celebrate everything the author, activist and creative force accomplished in her nearly one century on earth. Though best known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became the first non-fiction bestseller by a Black woman, Angelou’s talents and achievements run deep. She is a Grammy winner (for Best Spoken Word Album in 1994), a filmmaker (Down in the Delta, her directorial debut at the age of 70), was appointed an American Ambassador by the NAACP and President Barack Obama presented her with the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Today we also remember Maya Angelou. She would have been 87 years young today. 😖 may she Rest in peace. ❤ http://t.co/ZoVIKh0yAR
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Black Girls (@BlackGirlsWinni) April 04, 2015Today, we remember Maya Angelou on her birthday. Her legacy, works and mission live on in the hearts of millions. http://t.co/NyF0pDLZsz
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Happy birthday, Maya Angelou! This phenomenal woman recites her iconic "Phenomenal Woman" buff.ly/1BYWjtO http://t.co/MV4miiCAsL
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Maria Popova (@brainpicker) April 04, 2015For Maya Angelou's birthday, her wonderful children's book, illustrated by Basquiat buff.ly/1NIg13u http://t.co/mgTtKZU8zp
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"When someone shows you who they are... Believe them!" I live by that phrase 🙌 #MayaAngelouInspires #LifeLessons #HappyBirthday x
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Rochelle Neil (@RochelleNeil) April 04, 2015"You'll face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." #MayaAngelouInspires #wisewords #inspired
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Today, We Remember #MayaAngelou On Her 87th Birthday #MayaForever ---> bet.us/1DJqhrw http://t.co/adZosINBzW
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(@BET) April 04, 2015Happy Birthday to the legendary Maya Angelou!
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The Obama Diary 
It’s a furst.
DerBiiiiiiiiiiiiiingle!!!!
Adore this Nerdy, what a wondrous woman she was. Thank you Legend!
Thanks, Chips.
p.s. 7 points clear atop the table. 😉
I can still sense your fear #UnitedOnARoll 🙂
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Congrats DB on First!
Congrats DerBingle 🙂
Gorgeous tribute, NW. Thank you!!!
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DerBingle is # 1!
Thank you for these amazing tributes to such amazing persons in the history of humanity.
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Oh Gracious Love!
This is beautifully done, NW
Great Job!
Congrats DerBingle on your Au ⭐
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Every American, every pundit, every member of the media, and every elected official should see these graphs and diagrams showing the #IRANDeal
I noticed a lot of people talk about Iran’s threats to bomb Israel while Ignoring all the threats that Israel and US have leveled against Iran over the years from republicans as well as some democrats.
Hello Chips and ToD! Chips and NW, one of you may want to highlight this article in a post. The charts are amazing and make it very easy to see just what an impact this agreement will have on Iran’s nuclear program.
If, IF, the parties can get to a signed agreement, this may truly change the ME for the better. Rouhani and Zariff seem determined to bring Iran out of isolation. They are reaching out to the world.
As always, so proud of PBO. He was mocked in 2008 for saying he would work with Iran. And what he got was so much better than military force could hope to accomplish. Not sure what we’re going to do without him. And I cannot give enough kudos to his team. I don’t believe that John Kerry would have made as good a president as PBO but he has done an incredible job for President Obama.
THIS
Well said, Firefox. The President, his team and the other negotiators were operating out of an evolved mentality that understands the importance of peace and is comfortable with nuance. The detractors are those who know and understand only one tool–war. The future of the world rests with those who aren’t afraid of the hard work it takes to achieve peace. The past belongs to the war mongers.
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Happy Easter.
See you all Lovely People 😉 Tomorrow
HAPPY EASTER NENA…MAY GOD DEEPLY BLESS YOU WITH A BEAUTIFUL RESURRECTION CELEBRATION!
My heart sings and soars when I think of Maya Angelou. The beautiful long life she led and to know this is also the anniversary of MLK’s death is so heart wrenching. Thank you for both of these posts. We can never forget their legacy.
NW, this is a lovely tribute.
Glad you enjoyed it, GGail.
Beautiful tribute and beautiful pictures.
ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE AND BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND JESUS NEEDED HER….I MISS HER!
Off to dinner…
HOPE TO SEE YOU LATER GG…………..:)
Hello Sue, hope you’ve had a pleasant day 🙂
WOW…SUCH BEAUTIFUL PICTURES…AWESOME COLLECTION OF HER LIFE IN PROFILE NERDY!
Awesome.
VERY AWESOME….BEAUTIOUS IS THE WORD!!!!!!
Three lovely smart women. Why are they teaming up?
Makes you wonder what POTUS and FLOTUS are lining up after they leave the WH…
They are lovely, but what is so attractive about each of them is how smart and empathetic they are.
Wow! Awesome and gorgeous and I mean FLOTUS.
I AM ANXIOUS TO PURCHASE MAYA’S POSTAGE STAMPS AS SOON AS THEY ARE RELEASED…TIME FOR PBO’S TO BE OUT THERE…PRESIDENTIAL STAMP PLEASE AND OF COURSE A PROFILE ON MT. RUSHMORE…’MOVE OVER BOYS…THE BEST ONE IS ON HIS WAY!!!!!;…HOPE TO CHECK IN LATER…TIME TO GET DINNER IN THE OVEN…BLESSINGS EVERYONE!
Such moving and lovely photos honoring the one and only Maya! Thanks, NW! Congrats, DerBingle!
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Why is it that Knoller fell like he must give us every detail concerning POTUS playing golf? Real funny how he doesn’t tell us how many hours of golf that sorry ass speaker of the house plays, do he..
Pure and simply – ODS. It’s what he is so well paid to do.
Exactly
Nerdy, what a wonderful tribute to Maya Angelou. The pictures show how vibrant and alive she always was. I lived in Pittsburgh in the early 1970’s and saw her give a poetry reading at a college there. She had so much energy and made her poetry come alive. How lucky we are to live in the days of video and recordings of her live performances and interviews. She lives in our minds and hearts and will be an inspiration forever.
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Ohh! This one has already ‘bagged’ *me*! He looks so composed.
I knew he would attract our ‘quiet one’ 🙂
That he did! Thank you. 🙂
Nice to see you taking a break after your whirlwind trip further west.
Thank you VC. It was hugely successful, so the zero sleep was worth it 🙂 And, now we’re preparing a major proposal for Monday, but at least I’m not having to chase after airplanes and taxis to get the job done 😀 😀 😀
Congrats …on the accomplishment …and on the fact no airplane chasing is needed for the current stage! 🙂
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Ms NerdyW, today I thank you for your meaningfully nuanced recap of two beautiful, other-centred lives. You helped us to remember two precious citizens whom I feel sure earned the welcome ‘Well-done, my good and faithful servants!’
Thank you, VC.
YVW, NW – Happy Easter weekend!
They never stop – this President is never allowed to have “time out” by the WHPC – did they talk about GWB every time he went to “the ranch” or Camp David? Did they stir up the hate if GWB had a vacation?
Propaganda in the age of the Internet ….
Heads up ….
Great tributes, Nerdy. I still remember the first time I read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and what an impact it had on me.
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The US press is always the backward child of the international media–self-centered, loud, unable to grasp the scope of what’s going on, petulant and inevitably wrong.
TRUTH!
Thanks Bob for always being there to represent the sane and informed Americans.
Bob, something really touched me about this photograph and the simplicity of this celebration. I thought about the profusion of candy, cakes, cookies, hams, turkeys and endless excess that I saw today in the grocery store –stuff that Americans seem to need to celebrate a religious holiday. I wonder who might actually be having the more deeply spiritual experience.
I was also very touched, JackieG. Thank you!
“I wonder who might actually be having the more deeply spiritual experience.”
Indeed, JackieG. We Americans have to stop the insanity of thinking that we are better than everyone else in the world..
Great tweet, Bob!
Beautiful, heartbreaking photo. Thanks, Pf.
yw jackieg
Worth Reading
We were probably reading it at the same time!
thumbs up!
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Just say’n ….
Ohhhh Myyyyy
Rev. Jackson and his other son is strongly behind Garcia for Mayor. Jackson has a show which comes on the cable religion channel The Word on Saturday morning and Garcia have been on the show several times.
Preparations are underway for President Obama’s visit here in Jamaica. I am so excited just to think he will be gracing our shores is an honour. Hopefully I will be able to get a glimpse of him should he visit the University of The West Indies. Soooooo excited
Ah, thrilled for you Mellesia, I was just preparing the Week Ahead post earlier, had completely forgotten the Jamaica visit was next week, I’m sure it will be wonderful!
😯 😯 😯 What do you mean ‘completely forgotten’? Didn’t you see me say a day or two ago that I was counting on the Chips-Obama Travel group to get me all the travel details to compensate for the fact that I couldn’t get a ticket to get in!!!!!
Look, even us 23 and a half year olds have senior moments!1!1!
Well, I never!!!! No excuse! At 23 *I* was at the top of my form
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. if I remember correctly!
wow, in just one year, you’ve aged quite a bit.
time not your friend, my friend.
Here is the comment. The most pleasing thing for me was what was said about security. Even though we know there’s always security, it felt good to me to get a bit more perspective from someone with boots on the ground.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/03/a-tweet-or-two-277/#comment-1299924
I’m confused! Is that your comment? Are you in Jamaica? Or is it someone else’s comment? Help!!! 🙂
I am at home (that you lovingly refer to as goose land). 🙂 It is my comment; I was liaising with a friend who is in the UWI Registrar’s office (hallucinating that I could actually beg a ticket in). I really, really would have loved to be in the same room with PBO! She set me straight, but she did chat with me a bit about some of the preparations. In brief, their facility is being used, but they really have had nothing to do with direct presidential security.
Aaaaaah, okay, I thought you had jetted off to Jamaica without ANY permission from TOD.
You better believe I’d have jetted off without *prior* permission if I could have been assured a ticket in. 😉 I knew I could easily get absolution after the fact – if I came back with pics AND a report! In truth, that’s why I’ve emailed and spoken to my friend more frequently in the last week or so than I’ve done in years! Ah well! I tried. 😀 😀
Keep emailing your friend, and then, once the friendship is spectacularly restored, ask her if you can bring yourself and, oh, 50 blogs pals to visit her. Go on. Do it.
She can’t even get two tickets for sure – you think she’s going to get 50?
She’s been haranguing me about signing up for Skype (I didn’t tell her I’m having that same discussion with my friend from LA – Hi Gx2). O, and our friendship never needs restoration. It’s one of those woman thing where you don’t see/hear each other for years, yet pick up where you left of last time.
Lucky you! He *is* visiting UWI! I understand he’ll be speaking to a group of young people comprised of young people from JA and the surrounding countries.
I am so envious. Thought of coming home with an off chance of seeing him, but I gather security is tight. Hope you get a glimpse of President Obama. I have asked our Protocol person here is there is even a slight chance that he might visit Barbados. Answer, no as these visits are usually planned way in advance. Jamaica is lucky.
UWI has a campus at Cave Hill, so I suspect there may be a delegation of young people from there heading to the speech to the young people at UWI, Mona.
egg.sack.lee
A very fair question!
Charlie Adam’s wonder goal.
what’s that about?
Show me the
moneyvid.It was fabulous, but counted for friggin’ nothing in the end when the STOKE GK GIFTED CHELSEA THE WINNER.
Yes, I’m angry.
did the goalie tip that into his net?
I think he got a touch alright, but it was heading there any way. I’d like to get a touch on the Stoke GK, he’d be limping for a month.
70-62.
also. too. one game on hand.
just.let.it.go.
Never! Holding on for dear life!
also. too. man c one game on hand.
Hush.
heh hf, ‘sup?
LOL.
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Love the lli pika 🙂
Good morning amk 🙂
GM Bob. Just wait till hf sees it.
Nerdy, you’ve made this Easter eve very special for all of us with your remembrance and tributes to Martin Luther King and May Angelou. There is so much beauty, truth and poetry in both of these posts that we’re all lifted up by them. I feel as if something very important happened at TOD today because of what you did here. Thank you.
Thank you, Jackie.
advantage men.
A baby Chihuahua named Toudi, may just be the world’s smallest dog at 2.75 inches.
Just 12 weeks old, the pet, who weighs merely 10.5oz, is so small that it can easily fit in his owner’s palm.
#Itoldja
That could be a HUGE orange, though.
And what’s with his weird eyes. (The dog, not the orange man).
if you were the world’s smallest dog, your eyes would be bugging out too.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/04/the-lols-of-parenthood/