I read it at about that age too, and just absolutely loved it. Reading the part about her being raped as a child made my skin crawl for weeks and still gives me chills thinking about it.

Oh absolutely! I watched a bunch of other ones! I just went from “interview” to “what happens if you get pregnant” and got disgusted because that’s what I just expect from the Trumpers now.

Definitely watch previous interviews. There's one with Obama. The justin bieber one never fails to crack me up.

I sort-of skimmed the article at first. I read the questions and was disgusted.

Woman-boners are totally a thing. Embrace it. Love it. Enjoy it.

I read it at about that age too (maybe 10?) but I had the same experience. It’s life-changing.

You know, I think deadpan Hillary might be the very best Hillary of them all.

“He paid me in steaks.”

Slow blink FTW

Weirdly, they never have a shortage of cops to harass and intimidate the populace against whom there is no filed complaint but forever have a shortage of cops to investigate and resolve actual committed crimes. It’s like priorities express themselves in implementation or something.

I have no idea how, but her books touched me more than any, and I’m a white, German middle class 20-something. I had never heard of her before she passed but when she did it was all over the news. I picked up ‘I know why the caged bird sings’ and didn’t stop until I had read everything by her.
Her story just touched me…

Only when it comes to laws limiting guns and limiting corporations’ ability to piss on the little guy. They’re all for the government telling you who you can and can’t marry and whether it’s legal to walk down the street while black.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/maya-angelou-for-froot-loops/n10940

i have never been pandered to so effectively before

“Don’t tell me what to say”

The trailer alone made me cry. I’m bringing a box of Puffs to this and a megapack of Junior Mints and I’m giving into it.

My dad was the librarian at a local high school with a primarily African-American enrollment. He was very pro-active in purchasing books for their collection that spoke to the students, so his collection was dense in Eldridge Cleaver, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Dick Gregory...and every summer when his…

I hear this from anyone who has ever gone to hear her speak.

This IS how they think! But, they never say this out loud, even to each other.