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YouLookFab Forum » Topic: RIP Maya Angelou https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:52:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php Vicki on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1265741 Sat, 31 May 2014 17:49:35 +0000 Vicki 1265741@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Thank you, Caro, for remembering this brilliant and beautiful woman.  I am deeply moved and get chills reading these collected pieces. kerry on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1265251 Sat, 31 May 2014 00:27:17 +0000 kerry 1265251@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Caro, thank you for this thread. Maya Angelou was an absolute treasure. So wise. I'm not really into poetry but her words just leap off the page and demand to be read out loud. I can hear her voice when I do this, such a beautiful voice. rachylou on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1264971 Fri, 30 May 2014 16:33:35 +0000 rachylou 1264971@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ A mover of souls. And definitely one of the Big Mamas in my neck of the woods. VernieJane on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1264736 Fri, 30 May 2014 09:06:02 +0000 VernieJane 1264736@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. <div>Maya Angelou </div> LACeleste on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263961 Thu, 29 May 2014 13:57:50 +0000 LACeleste 1263961@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ “You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.” ― <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3503.Maya_Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> Such a wise woman. Ledonna N. on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263916 Thu, 29 May 2014 12:53:37 +0000 Ledonna N. 1263916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Mourning Phenomenal woman The Poet Laureate feeling the loss deeply a great voice of the world  resting in heavens arms. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings. <div> The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. </div> <div>Maya Angelou Thank You OZ </div> TraceyLiz65 on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263886 Thu, 29 May 2014 11:13:22 +0000 TraceyLiz65 1263886@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I didn't even take blog photos or write a blog post yesterday... I spent the time in reflection reading her quotes and posted a few o fmy favorites on my blog today.. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://versatilestylebytracey.com/2014/05/29/maya-angelou-you-will-be-greatly-missed/">http://versatilestylebytracey......ly-missed/</a> crutcher on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263880 Thu, 29 May 2014 10:45:45 +0000 crutcher 1263880@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ The world of books and words is a little bit dimmer this morning and a little sadder without the presence of Maya Angelou..She was such a wordsmith and an inspiration as she defined life to those of us who wished we were but aren't...Look down and smile at our efforts to get it right... Caro in Oz on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263835 Thu, 29 May 2014 07:12:04 +0000 Caro in Oz 1263835@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yes Ornella she really did Ornella on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263828 Thu, 29 May 2014 06:58:17 +0000 Ornella 1263828@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. And thrived she did. What a legacy, what a woman, what a human being. Caro in Oz on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263793 Thu, 29 May 2014 04:17:16 +0000 Caro in Oz 1263793@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ She was Isabel - a beautiful, big she oak Isabel on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263790 Thu, 29 May 2014 04:10:07 +0000 Isabel 1263790@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Wow Caro, what a perfect selection. She was the big oak tree.....what a beautiful image for me.   Caro in Oz on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263788 Thu, 29 May 2014 04:06:58 +0000 Caro in Oz 1263788@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yes I love that poem too, Hil :) Hil on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263785 Thu, 29 May 2014 04:02:58 +0000 Hil 1263785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Thanks for posting - I was thinking of starting the same thread. One of my favourites - of which there are so many - and especially appropriate for this forum: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Caro in Oz on "RIP Maya Angelou" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ripmaya-angelou#post-1263765 Thu, 29 May 2014 03:27:20 +0000 Caro in Oz 1263765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly.  Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed.  They existed. We can be.  Be and be better.  For they existed. From When Great Trees Fall.