Awesome story, imagine this Black couple in an area of 60,000 population with maybe 10 African Americans total living there, and she is at my house having dinner

I didnt know any better (that someone important was there), I asked my mom how I reacted to seeing Black people in my house for the first time or maybe the first time I saw Black people period, she said I barely noticed, just took my $2 she would give me when they had dinner parties so i could go to the local burger place which was fun for me...

She later taught me about racism and why the N word was bad and that I was to love everybody or she would kick my ass...

Strangely enough she didnt need to teach me about the N word, I remember my racist brother using it in a joke and i didnt know what it meant but i knew it was bad

. . . thanks for sharing that, randys1. That was certainly a memorable experience!

with discussion but they did carry Michelle Obama's eulogy in its entirety. It was a beautiful tribute to a very unique spirit who was among us for so long and yet such a short time.

I posted a video in the op, Skidmore

Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Andrew Young, Cicely Tyson, Oprah, Dr. Angelou's son, her Mt. Zion minister, the Wynans, all together celebrating a woman who lived a fierce, proud, generous life and inspired the same. It made me not want to waste one more second, but to stand tall and work and play and embrace. So easy to forget how truly marvelous life is if you work to be in awe of it, and of yourself.

I've never seen Mrs. Obama so comfortable. If it's replayed on OWN, it's worth watching.

thanks for the video

. . .thx to The Obama Diary.

for the beautiful Maya.

She will be missed.

Thank you bigtree~

" . . .the beautiful Maya."

the way to the white house".

is because I was lucky enough to be there.
The chapel holds 2500 people, I think, and it was filled up. I was in the balconey, but had a great seat.

. . . what it often takes?

Her statement makes perfect sense and can only be viewed as 'creepy' without a clear understanding of how it feels to be devalued, discriminated against, or denigrated simply on the basis of the color of one's skin.

due to the massive advertising campaign to shame us into anorexia, plastic surgery, make up and make overs, no. All in the vain hope of attracting and holding the regard of one fickle male...(or female, as one pleases).

I don't feel comfortable in my skin. Most people don't. It isn't a life goal, either.

She lived on the product of her brain, not her body, nor how she felt about her body.

If anything her body's discomforts goaded her brain to output more and higher quality product than this really creepy statement.

It's a massive put-down, in other words, of one of the giants of our time.

. . . just stop.


Passing Time - Maya Angelou

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
Of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
Sure beginning.

Being "comfortable in one's skin" is a euphemism for knowing one's self, accepting one's self and loving one's self.

I'd say that describes Maya Angelou pretty well.

There is no way this could reasonably be seen as a put-down.

There is nothing creepy here. Your response is just plain weird.

I want to be as beautiful as I can be—to MYSELF first. THEN to whomever has the SENSE to see me. --Maya Angelou

fast to being willfully ignorant. I knew that Michelle's comment about Ms. Angelou's being comfortable in her own black skin would be controversial. I suspect that faux news and the rest of the crazies will attempt to make Michelle out to be a racist. I am a black woman and fully support what she says as I know for a fact how true her statements were. People on here trying to make a connection to a black woman being comfortable in the skin that she was born as being on the same level as plastic surgery are examples of what is wrong in 'Merica.

because the idea of colored folk being happy and with self-esteem...horror of horrors!!!!!!!1one

For Maya Angelou~

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it's not measured by length. She should have said "comfortable in every square foot of her skin"

Glad you saw it as I intended it,

should be the ones who live forever. It should not go to those rich assholes.

bigtree.

¸.•´ ? ☆And Still.... ? `•.¸.•´ ? º ☆.¸¸.•´¯`? They RISE!!!!


One of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou~




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