worst. writer. ever.

Only writing about rape allegorically is real.

only having her speak at your school and almost running over a sea of what you thought were shadows but were instead masses of black people leaving the auditorium at night is real.

this thread is racist

David Alan Grier as Maya Angelou

god dammit, wrong link


bennyhillifier

fuxed.

Drew this is hilarious. David Alan Grier will forever be more talented than Maya Angelou.

Hey, why the hate? Her Madea movies were sort of funny.

I always found her intensely over rated. Her prose never really had much honesty with it. I remember reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in high school and considering it really pompous. Her character always has to come out on top, and be better and smarter than everyone. That's not real life. You lose in life. A lot. Even a writer like Bukowski, who admittedly lived in an autobiographical fantasy land when he wrote let the truth shine and let himself look like an asshole once and a fuckup once in a while.

Real characters have faults. The Holden Caufields of the world battle with their own faults as much as they battle with others. Angelou never offered that. Her characters are obtuse and obvious. Her observations are trite. And her prose is boring.

only ultra-tragic Shakespearean leads are real

...as we continue yearning to understand the black man's hamartia...

sometimes you just have to pee in the sink

I wasn't being serious, it was joke about the Madea plays and all black people looking the same.

I've never had the misfortune of reading IKWTCBS but there was always a girl in my school's bi-yearly declamation competitions who'd read one of her awful poems and I'm pretty sure I had to read a few for an English class. From the way you describe it the book sounds a hell of a lot like why even though I really enjoy most of The Jungle there's a point where I can't get over how the characters fall apart and are just ciphers for Sinclair's political message for like the last 40 pages.

Othello or GTFO

Shimmyshimmyyashimmyyoshimmyyay

Beans and cornbread, I eat 'em all day.

Wait, so she's fucking Tori Amos now?