Gratitude to our Lord for being able to live in a time where I can say that my life was touched by the teachings of Dr. Maya Angelou—-a true gift from God. Thank you, Thank you!
Lydia Williams
When I think back on the time Maya Angelou was born and all the ugly pit falls she had to go through and deal with, it reassures me that one person can make a difference with God on their side. I am so inspired with the concept that courage is the greatest virtue, without courage we cannot exercise the others. That is so true, because without courage we’ll except whatever is happening at that time and not do anything to make a difference. Credos to Maya for not being a coward soldier. God cannot use you if your afraid to go. I am so grateful for the courage and faith Maya had in her God that allowed her to be a voice for others. With her life being so open to the world and media, I respect how she allowed the positive energies define who she was. In spite of all she had to endure, we witnessed no complaining or negative undertones. WOW! what a woman. I pray I can continue to follow in her footsteps. And allow that beacon light to shine in my life for others to see. Jesus said in the “Word”, “let the life that I live speak for me”. God Bless
Liz Colvin
You’re my heroine.
McShell
I heard Dr. Angelou speak last year and I was amazed at her chrisma and wisdom. She let something with me that I have carried with me since then and I pray it stays with me forever. “Be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud”. Thanks God, for lending your voice and spirit to such a beautiful soul that did all she could to remind us that you loved us!
Karen Glass
I did not have the opportunity to meet you here on earth. I will meet you one day. With Our Lord That will be a glorious time. I live here accordingly so that I may go home as so many others before me can/will go home to be with Our Father who art in HEAVEN. Amen
Nancy
As an English teacher of sophomores, each year I could never wait until I had the opportunity to teach “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” It’s such a powerful book and so full of life lessons. One year I decided to HOPEFULLY surprise the students. A couple of months ahead of time I took a chance and wrapped up and mailed two of my books of poetry by Ms. Angelou.I had gone online and found an address for Wake Forest and off it went. TO MY ABSOLUTE ASTONISHMENT, I had BOTH back autographed to me in LESS than a week. I stood there, holding them to me, and just cried. I did. I truly did. What a grand and glorious memory. I still remember going to class and showing them!! Thank you Ms. Angeou. I gained so many insights from you. Every time I knew you were going to be on tv I always had my recorder on and a pen and paper beside me as I KNEW I would have lots of words of wisdom to get down!!!!!!! My all-time favorite: “Words are things. . .” How right you are. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being yourself – always. Now you have a new audience in Heaven.
Falanda Joseph
I loved you more than words can say. RIP angel from above!!!!
Margo
You were and still are an inspiration to all women all over the world, Thanks for being there for us.
Cherilynn Tootle
Dr. Maya had such a far reach, leaving lasting & life-changing fingerprints on people’s lives without the need for a physical touch. Missed. Revered. Loved. Eternal.
Claudette Kirk
Such an amazing Woman – she triumphed over a many of things, and skipped across many stones, flew a many flights, to rise above and become such an inspiration, such a warm and inviting spirit. The breath of her voice and the power of her words have traveled far and wide and will continue to be a part of all of us. Thank you Dr. Angelou for being. I pray for peace, love, happiness to the family and thank you for sharing. My condolence and blessing to all of you.
David Boyd
She was an American Treasure and a voice for Equality for all humankind. It’s truly touching how one person can touch you life forever. I attended a women’s conference just to get to hear her speak. I did not even care if I was the only man in the room. I have all her books and will cherish them for the rest of my life and a voice that will live on forever. I want to thank her family for sharing her with the world. We are a better for her gifts. May God bless the family and her memory.
Tchaiko Kwayana formerly Ann Cook
This remembrance goes back to 1962-64. It was a time when African Americans left the USA often going either to Tanzania (as Randall Robinson[TransAfrica], Vida Gaynor and son, Dennis, Bob Moses [Algebra Project] and wife, Mae Mallory, and Sister Charlotte O’Neal and husband and others) or to Ghana (Tom and Muriel Feelings, Julian Mayfield, Jim and Nannette Haralson Lacy, Carlos Austin, Leslie Lacy, Frank, the Overseer of the community, Alice Windom and her Y Hostel roommate, Maya Mackey and her son, Guy, then a teenager. Among the freedom fighters President Nkrumah welcomed was an extraordinary painter, Selby Mvusi. Maya and Alice were roommates at the Y where Guy also lived as a teenager. I was teaching in Lagos but spent all my holidays with them in Accra eating at the excellent popular Y cafeteria at lunch as Ghanaians did. I was later able to assist in getting diplomatic support in Ghana for Brother Malcolm through the High Commissioner from Nigeria to Ghana, Alhaji Isa Wali. It was an interesting 2 years. My sympathy pours out to Guy but also to her old roommate, Alice Windom of St. Louis.
Rise, Sister Maya!
Ann Cook at the time (I sent a message to her just weeks ago through my doctoral committee member, the now late Dr. Vincent Hardings, who was spending a week at Wake Forest.) Now both stalwarts, as well as Elombe Brath and Sam Greenlee made their transition at around the same period. May there be more and more that flower in our world of such need! tk
Grace McKend
Dr. Maya have fought the good fight, and finished your course, laid up for u a crown. Rest in God’s precious arms my wonderful sister in Christ.
June7th,2014 at 5:17pm
ana
Dr Maya Angelou
You have been an inspiration to all of us black and white , pink blue and brown
May you memory lives on
God bless you
Thank you for your legacy
Ana
Delores Adams
A personal thanks to Dr. Maya Angelou, and a special thanks for all of your great works and sayings…you are still a big inspiration to me. And so I shall keep on writing, Amen
J. G.
With gratitude, a profound Thank You!
DeeDe Pinckney
Thank you for being a genuine human being with enough life and love to share with the world. Your life and legacy speak volumes for what it means to be authentic. You will be missed but remembered always.
Tracy J Washington
‘Phenomenal Woman’ indeed who inspires me.
“There is always one who will remind me of elegance and grace,
One who will empower me to continue the race.
I found this in you so long ago,
When I had no hand to latch on and follow.
You are amazing and gentle, as could be,
You graced the entire world with your positive energy.
You lit up darkness as with the Light of the Messiah,
You are as the mist in the air, My Dear Maya…. Tracy J Washington
Yvonne
Dr. Maya Angelou has been an inspiration to me since I was in Junior High School. She reinforced my love of both the spoken and written word and was an wavering light encouraging me to ever press for. Her poem ” I Rise ” has not fallen on deaf ears. Thank you Dr. Angelou and many thanks to her family for sharing her with the world.
Cordelia Riley
I am in awe, because I have a role model that I can give to my kid and others I love because she dared to write and to teach and because I live in an age where things can be captured on film and shared.
Dr. Angelou,
Gratitude to our Lord for being able to live in a time where I can say that my life was touched by the teachings of Dr. Maya Angelou—-a true gift from God. Thank you, Thank you!
When I think back on the time Maya Angelou was born and all the ugly pit falls she had to go through and deal with, it reassures me that one person can make a difference with God on their side. I am so inspired with the concept that courage is the greatest virtue, without courage we cannot exercise the others. That is so true, because without courage we’ll except whatever is happening at that time and not do anything to make a difference. Credos to Maya for not being a coward soldier. God cannot use you if your afraid to go. I am so grateful for the courage and faith Maya had in her God that allowed her to be a voice for others. With her life being so open to the world and media, I respect how she allowed the positive energies define who she was. In spite of all she had to endure, we witnessed no complaining or negative undertones. WOW! what a woman. I pray I can continue to follow in her footsteps. And allow that beacon light to shine in my life for others to see. Jesus said in the “Word”, “let the life that I live speak for me”. God Bless
You’re my heroine.
I heard Dr. Angelou speak last year and I was amazed at her chrisma and wisdom. She let something with me that I have carried with me since then and I pray it stays with me forever. “Be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud”. Thanks God, for lending your voice and spirit to such a beautiful soul that did all she could to remind us that you loved us!
I did not have the opportunity to meet you here on earth. I will meet you one day. With Our Lord That will be a glorious time. I live here accordingly so that I may go home as so many others before me can/will go home to be with Our Father who art in HEAVEN. Amen
As an English teacher of sophomores, each year I could never wait until I had the opportunity to teach “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” It’s such a powerful book and so full of life lessons. One year I decided to HOPEFULLY surprise the students. A couple of months ahead of time I took a chance and wrapped up and mailed two of my books of poetry by Ms. Angelou.I had gone online and found an address for Wake Forest and off it went. TO MY ABSOLUTE ASTONISHMENT, I had BOTH back autographed to me in LESS than a week. I stood there, holding them to me, and just cried. I did. I truly did. What a grand and glorious memory. I still remember going to class and showing them!! Thank you Ms. Angeou. I gained so many insights from you. Every time I knew you were going to be on tv I always had my recorder on and a pen and paper beside me as I KNEW I would have lots of words of wisdom to get down!!!!!!! My all-time favorite: “Words are things. . .” How right you are. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being yourself – always. Now you have a new audience in Heaven.
I loved you more than words can say. RIP angel from above!!!!
You were and still are an inspiration to all women all over the world, Thanks for being there for us.
Dr. Maya had such a far reach, leaving lasting & life-changing fingerprints on people’s lives without the need for a physical touch. Missed. Revered. Loved. Eternal.
Such an amazing Woman – she triumphed over a many of things, and skipped across many stones, flew a many flights, to rise above and become such an inspiration, such a warm and inviting spirit. The breath of her voice and the power of her words have traveled far and wide and will continue to be a part of all of us. Thank you Dr. Angelou for being. I pray for peace, love, happiness to the family and thank you for sharing. My condolence and blessing to all of you.
She was an American Treasure and a voice for Equality for all humankind. It’s truly touching how one person can touch you life forever. I attended a women’s conference just to get to hear her speak. I did not even care if I was the only man in the room. I have all her books and will cherish them for the rest of my life and a voice that will live on forever. I want to thank her family for sharing her with the world. We are a better for her gifts. May God bless the family and her memory.
This remembrance goes back to 1962-64. It was a time when African Americans left the USA often going either to Tanzania (as Randall Robinson[TransAfrica], Vida Gaynor and son, Dennis, Bob Moses [Algebra Project] and wife, Mae Mallory, and Sister Charlotte O’Neal and husband and others) or to Ghana (Tom and Muriel Feelings, Julian Mayfield, Jim and Nannette Haralson Lacy, Carlos Austin, Leslie Lacy, Frank, the Overseer of the community, Alice Windom and her Y Hostel roommate, Maya Mackey and her son, Guy, then a teenager. Among the freedom fighters President Nkrumah welcomed was an extraordinary painter, Selby Mvusi. Maya and Alice were roommates at the Y where Guy also lived as a teenager. I was teaching in Lagos but spent all my holidays with them in Accra eating at the excellent popular Y cafeteria at lunch as Ghanaians did. I was later able to assist in getting diplomatic support in Ghana for Brother Malcolm through the High Commissioner from Nigeria to Ghana, Alhaji Isa Wali. It was an interesting 2 years. My sympathy pours out to Guy but also to her old roommate, Alice Windom of St. Louis.
Rise, Sister Maya!
Ann Cook at the time (I sent a message to her just weeks ago through my doctoral committee member, the now late Dr. Vincent Hardings, who was spending a week at Wake Forest.) Now both stalwarts, as well as Elombe Brath and Sam Greenlee made their transition at around the same period. May there be more and more that flower in our world of such need! tk
Dr. Maya have fought the good fight, and finished your course, laid up for u a crown. Rest in God’s precious arms my wonderful sister in Christ.
June7th,2014 at 5:17pm
Dr Maya Angelou
You have been an inspiration to all of us black and white , pink blue and brown
May you memory lives on
God bless you
Thank you for your legacy
Ana
A personal thanks to Dr. Maya Angelou, and a special thanks for all of your great works and sayings…you are still a big inspiration to me. And so I shall keep on writing, Amen
With gratitude, a profound Thank You!
Thank you for being a genuine human being with enough life and love to share with the world. Your life and legacy speak volumes for what it means to be authentic. You will be missed but remembered always.
‘Phenomenal Woman’ indeed who inspires me.
“There is always one who will remind me of elegance and grace,
One who will empower me to continue the race.
I found this in you so long ago,
When I had no hand to latch on and follow.
You are amazing and gentle, as could be,
You graced the entire world with your positive energy.
You lit up darkness as with the Light of the Messiah,
You are as the mist in the air, My Dear Maya…. Tracy J Washington
Dr. Maya Angelou has been an inspiration to me since I was in Junior High School. She reinforced my love of both the spoken and written word and was an wavering light encouraging me to ever press for. Her poem ” I Rise ” has not fallen on deaf ears. Thank you Dr. Angelou and many thanks to her family for sharing her with the world.
I am in awe, because I have a role model that I can give to my kid and others I love because she dared to write and to teach and because I live in an age where things can be captured on film and shared.