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    Essence Festival New Orleans 1997

    Dr. Maya Angelou performs at Essence Fest in 1997.
    She honored and admired New Orleans.

    July 19th, 2014 three women invited the city of New Orleans to share in a celebration of the life of Dr. Maya Angelou at the Algiers Regional Library on the Westbank of New Orleans.
    3 people who are members of the Library Poetry group, felt it was their mission to give thanks and praise to celebrate the life of one of the centuries great woman artist and humanitarian.

    Her book about her past as a sex worker
    "Gather Together in My Name"

    Dr. Maya Angelou was a sex worker and she proved, in her life and her stories, that there’s nothing wrong with it.

    To quote her:

    Now you understand
    just why my head’s not bowed.
    I don’t shout or jump about
    Or have to talk real loud.
    When you see me passing,
    It ought to make you proud.
    I say,
    It’s in the click of my heels,
    The bend of my hair,
    the palm of my hand,
    the need for my care.
    ‘Cause I’m a woman
    Phenomenally.


    R.I.Paradise my 'Sister'
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    Almost Essence Festival time...

    Quote Originally Posted by Seeking ~P View Post
    Dr. Maya Angelou

    Her book about her past as a sex worker
    "Gather Together in My Name"

    Dr. Maya Angelou was a sex worker and she proved, in her life and her stories, that there’s nothing wrong with it.

    To quote her:

    Now you understand
    just why my head’s not bowed.
    I don’t shout or jump about
    Or have to talk real loud.
    When you see me passing,
    It ought to make you proud.
    I say,
    It’s in the click of my heels,
    The bend of my hair,
    the palm of my hand,
    the need for my care.
    ‘Cause I’m a woman
    Phenomenally.


    R.I.Paradise my 'Sister'
    Being the bibliophile that I am, I must read this book!


    Happy Sunday :)

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    Hopefully we will get some interesting business from the Essence festival

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    Wow, I’m ashamed to admit that I knew so little about Dr. Angelou. I did not know that she had been a sex worker. I will be reading her books. Thank you ~P for sharing and educating us.
    James
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    ^You're welcome, James.


    Essence Festival debut ....
    Michelle “Forever First Lady” Obama!!!!

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    I just finished reading Gather Together In My Name.

    Wow!

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is next.

    Thank you Ms ~P.
    James
    Loving life in Austin



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    ^I must catch up. your fellow Bibliophile, Yw!

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    A calendar of events in New Orleans would be helpful, conventions bring in traveling business men and our phones start ringing.
    I don't know half of the time what is going on unless someone tells me or it's hobby related.
    Stay cool in this heat, find a swimming pool

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    I just finished reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. What a magnificent book! I wish now that I had read it years before, but ever so glad that I finally did. Thank you Ms ~P.
    James
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    You guys would probably like everything by Ernest Gaines. Plus he is a local from this end
    A Gathering of old men would be a good start.
    Good manners and courtesy open more doors than they ever close and they cost you nothing.
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    Toni Morrison, Author and Nobel Laureate, RIP. (1931-2019)

    “We die,” Morrison closed her Nobel Prize address.

    We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

    RIPower, Beloved Queen.

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