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Wisdom of Maya

Some Thursday Thoughts from Maya Angelou:

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

“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.”

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.”

 

 

Goodbye, Maya

I’m going to miss Maya Angelou.  I admired her as a poet–may some of my poems be as deeply human as hers some day–as well as a person who put her early life’s adversities and injustices into a personal force to fight such inhumanity aimed towards others.  She was Woman at Womanhood’s best.