Maya Angelou on now!

[Misunderestimator]

God, I love her!

[faithnotgreed]

1. beautiful.

[Avalux]

2. I love her voice

and her speaking style. Strength.

[Misunderestimator]

3. "A country... where the mighty do not always crush the weak"

"What is there in my country which makes me turn my head and avert my eyes when I hear the yet to be United States of America"

"Alas, and was I born to wear these brutish chains? I must slash the handcuffs from wrists and live a man again."

Too much poetry to digest.

[Jax]

4. Thanks for the heads up

She is outstanding.

Her Inaugural poem for Clinton was outstanding as well:
http://eserver.org/poetry/angelou.html
A snip from the poem:

"The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.

No less to Midas than the mendicant.

No less to you now than the mastodon then.

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning."

Time to say GOOD MORNING again this coming January.

Jax

[Literate Tar Heel]

5. she's a lousy poet though

and she sold out to Hallmark

[Misunderestimator]

7. Whatever man... if you consider that lousy... what on earth do you...

consider good?

[Literate Tar Heel]

9. J. Tate, Ashbery, Collins, Eliot, Simic, O'Hara, Ammons, Merwin

Lux, Goldbarth, Hicok, Rich, Frost, L. Hughes ... many others

[Misunderestimator]

6. "A little light aimed at the darkness of ignorance"

Shine America... this little light of mine, shine, I'm gonna let it shine.

She's singing now... damn!

[Endangered Specie]

8. LET IT SHIIIINE!