Maya Angelou had a magnificent impact on my adolescence, education and attitude. She gave me the greatest gift you could ever give a young woman-- insight. To someone who is in love with words and feels the weight and depth of what they mean and how you say them, I was captured by how she organized hers onto paper. How she seemed to so easily and perfectly explain to me how I was feeling. Her art was like therapy for me. I used to read some of her stuff and feel validated afterwards. As if she had just given me the courage to love who I am. It is as if she raised me from a girl to a woman.
Her earthly accomplishments don't even begin to compare to her unending spiritual initiatives. Words live forever. And they can pioneer equality, tolerance, peace.
Rest in Paradise.
You were a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's you.
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