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Tag: Dr. Maya Angelou

Elder Woman... A Poem for Miss. Maya

Elder Woman… A Poem for Miss. Maya

Posted on June 4, 2014June 7, 2014 by Lela Jefferson Fagan

  Miss. Maya, Can I tell our shared story? How we all became your daughters and sons? Many of us never met you face to face. Yet…Somehow feel as if we are all kin to you.   You wiped tears of shame from eyes distances away with pages used as tissues. Ink running over and…

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His Day is Done – A Tribute Poem for Nelson Mandela by Dr. Maya Angelou

Posted on December 8, 2013January 16, 2014 by Lela Jefferson Fagan

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 as a global family we began to mourn the loss of Nelson Mandela.  A man whose whole life exemplified, grace, honor, strength of courage, diligence and a strong commitment to the basic belief that all men were created to be free. Mr. Mandela served 27 years as a political prisoner…

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