Dear God, I love this woman like she was my own grandmother.

She could've been the president of the United States if she wanted to. What a woman! Phenomenal Woman....

Her wisdom is just beautiful.

gotta respect a woman who can make a grownass black man pull down his sunglasses to wipe off a tear on BET.

Who's here in 2021? So profound! Still makes me cry.

The spirit of God..... moves through her voice

"No human being can be more human being than another human." Beautiful and true words. To everyone who agrees, have a blessed day. Peace.

What an amazing woman. To rise out of ashes without bitterness but love.

"But sugar it was our submission that made your world go round..."

"The truth is: no human being can be more human than another human being." Such profound words.

No human can be more human than another human being. (love)

The sound of this woman's voice simply gives me chills and goosebumps.her voice is amazing and what she has to say is soo real and inspires me.this woman is so wise and loving.she makes me smile whenever I see her :) simply amazing! Rest in peace Maya Angelou. I love everything you did! You will live on forsure! Gone but NEVER forgotten.

This woman damned near always brings me to tears. What a phenomenal woman. May God bless her for all eternity. 🙏

"Bring peace in your heart whenever you go anywhere. ... You understand? It's my prayer for you." I just love that. Thank you for posting.

She is so true with what she says GOD loves us all the same...PEACE

rest in peace Maya Angelou rest in peace

Beautiful!!!!

I cried so hard when I heard this poem for the first time... so thankful for my ancestors and all they went through just so I can be here.

The atmosphere shifted right when you left us Mama Dr. Maya. We love you ❤️🥹

RIP 1928-2014 You will be missed... And I can imagine she's already got 1000 sonnets made out while she's up there that are even better.

They laughed, indeed, to 'cover' the mask! TEACH us, oh wise one!!💕🌹

We wear the mask that grins and lies. It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes. This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties. Why should the world think otherwise In counting all our tears and sighs. Nay let them only see us while We wear the mask. We smile but oh my God Our tears to thee from tortured souls arise And we sing Oh Baby doll, now we sing… The clay is vile beneath our feet And long the mile But let the world think otherwise. We wear the mask. When I think about myself I almost laugh myself to death. My life has been one great big joke! A dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke. I laugh so hard HA! HA! I almos’ choke When I think about myself. Seventy years in these folks’ world The child I works for calls me girl I say “HA! HA! HA! Yes ma’am!” For workin’s sake I’m too proud to bend and Too poor to break So…I laugh! Until my stomach ache When I think about myself. My folks can make me split my side I laugh so hard, HA! HA! I nearly died The tales they tell sound just like lying They grow the fruit but eat the rind. Hmm huh! I laugh uhuh huh huh… Until I start to cry when I think about myself And my folks and the children. My fathers sit on benches, Their flesh count every plank, The slats leave dents of darkness Deep in their withered flank. And they gnarled like broken candles, All waxed and burned profound. They say, but sugar, it was our submission that made your world go round. There in those pleated faces I see the auction block The chains and slavery’s coffles The whip and lash and stock. My fathers speak in voices That shred my fact and sound They say, but sugar, it was our submission that made your world go round. They laugh to conceal their crying, They shuffle through their dreams They stepped ’n fetched a country And wrote the blues in screams. I understand their meaning, It could an did derive From living on the edge of death They kept my race alive By wearing the mask! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

A Great Soul has passed in these times when we need her most. May Dr. Angelo's poems live on to teach the children, awaken the masses and connect to make us whole.

In order to keep a person down, you got to be there with them...

I'm so choked up after watching this........nothing is a mistake.....nothing is happenstance.....Like Maya Angelou said, We are ALL Human. I'm so glad I am in the world while Maya Angelou existed in this world. Her residue still heals, still strengthens.....Now that's ever lasting POWER! -Monea' aka BorntomotivateFILM

I miss this Golden lady. A library of Loving knowledge & emotions. This Queen was truly Love ❤️

Phenomenal Dr. Maya Angelou 🌷💚🦅☕ I smile Rest in peace 🙏💙 Psalm 23

This is one of my all time favorite poems by Dr.Maya Angelo. I remember watching it when it first aired, and tears streamed down my face. What a poet, and true inspiration she was for women and men everywhere. IT was through this poem, I learned I had to take off a mask, and never put it on again. Love

What a privilege to have had this QUEEN 👑 in the world 🌍 Your words will live on in our hearts 💙💚🧡 forever Maya Angelou 🙏🏻👼🏽🙏🏻

66 year old MEN can cry?? I am guilty!! RIP DR,MAYA ANGELOU! NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.

MAYA ANGELOU you were a fantastic phenominal woman words cannot describe how your words brings me joy love you loads RIP lovely lady

Yes, this is why I love to listen to Maya Angelou. Her wisdom and life experiences teaches if people just listen. I love the people I come from and that's love. No human can be no human than another human being.

“In order to bring a person down you gotta be right there with them” I love her😩❤️

“ The Truth is, No Human Being can be MORE Human than another Human Being.” Maya Angelou~ So simple, yet so profound. 🤯 Bring Peace where ever you go. ❤️🙏🏼

She's amazing simply amazing

I heard Ms. Angelou recite this YEARS ago...I've ALWAYS remembered this, more than anything else I've heard from/by her. It stuck with me, and is actually something I've done in life to keep from breaking down when things become too much for me to bear.

"We wear the mask"😢😢😭 What an extraordinary woman she was.. She was a blessing.. But oh what pearls of wisdom she left behind..🔥💎💯💕

Why is she gone? Where is she for me and all of us, besides memories and replayed poems? Now that I need her, so did God... But grateful am I that she lives on to teach me enough...

Maya Angelou is such a beautiful woman who if you read about her you would be suprised what she was and what GOD made her to be...Love HER

Hearing her voice always bring joy to my heart!!!!

OHH Maya may your beautiful soul rest in peace. I love you

She is one of my favorites!!! So much power

Such a powerful poem.

"I liberate you from my ignorance" RIP Dr Maya Angelou

R.I.P Gone but not forgotten. You were a gem.

“I laugh so hard I start to crying 😢 “..” when I think about myself “ I’m only 17 and I knowsss . I laugh to numb away the pain and trauma

She is so phenomenal, thank you Grandma Maya for all you've done Rest in power 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

THANK YOU MAMA Maya for BLISSING and gracing me TODAY!!! You showed me to continue HEALING and growing even through the trials. LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL SOUL xxxx

I love this spiritual lifting 🥰😍😍

She said to take peace with you! !!

I saw this one Sunday, while walking out the door on the way to Sunday school; I couldn't help my cry.

Mr favorite part - "Just decide, 'I'm going to take peace with me, i'm not gonna wait till I get there to make it'"@5:15

THE LADY SIMPLY STUNS "MY SOUL"!

She just makes me smile.

This poem never fail to make my tear up.

She was and will always be the ultimate inspiration!!!

What a gem...what a rare and fine gem....I'm glad that she is one of MY people!!!!!

This gave me chills....She is timeless...her gift is timeless..only jealousy and foolish pride keeps one from truly understanding what she is relating...

Though this has been our plight I guarantee that not everyone can be us. And I'm sure that others thinks that about themselves and their own people. But we wear the struggle of a people who will always fight against the odds and we will stand to the very end of our individual lives. I am proud of my life and my people's legacy. I LOVE YOU ALL!!! Thank you Maya Angelou for this beautiful and thought provoking poem on many levels of "the struggle". Rest In Peace. ❤️

Mama thank you for leaving something for us to look to ...rest with angels maya

I Thank You May a Angelos, for the many years of expressed feelings,and poetic thoughts you shared with me and throughout your life time. You will need error be forgotten. ... R.I.P. LOVE DEBRA.2015

Words of wisdom. Thank you, for your words, Dr. Angelou. You inspire me as the writer in progress, that I am.

Laugh to keep from crying

👍Love her. I’m blessed that I had the pleasure to meet her. 💞

I never tire of watching this video. Beautiful And truthful

OH YOU BEAUTIFUL LADY...HOW U TOUCH MY HEART....

My grandmother and aunt use to wear that mask, may they rest in peace and I couldn't understand... why... now I do.😢

I like how Ma immediately said “It’s love, not sentimentality.” As I was almost going to respond with tears, then I stopped myself thinking, it was an experience. I cannot feel shame or sadness for her experience. I can appreciate it, and as Ma states, it was her expression of love.

This piece was SOUL STIRRING!!! #RealityPoet💕👑

I've always loved this Poem......

I am crying. I read her books in middle School but I'm older now and have such a different outlook and appreciation for her

We take the mask off survival is not the mode anymore , I thank you for giving you .👑💜

Her spirit is so beautiful. She is so inspiring. Her views of life is so gorgeous. Thank you, God for giving us an angel.

Amen I love her!!! Her and my grandmother. Smartest women ever!!!

Dr. Maya 's voice is like a warm hug on a cold Chicago day. 😊

I will always love this woman. .Her words. ....

Maya Angelou was such a heaven sent, an Angel directly from God to us humans to preach His Gospel for over 6 decades 🙏🙌💞

RIP you are an amazing women.

So much sincerity in her voice. The depth in her voice is magnificent. Truly a voice of the people. The human people, the human race. Her race was won. God Bless.

always be remembered maya Angelou

This woman was amazing. But whoever edited this so badly needs a slap!

I am still in awe of her

I love and miss you so much Maya. I hope someday to have half your talent.

Wearing the mask is comes so natural.. Awesome poem

My GOD.......I LOVED HER THEN I LOVE HER NOW AND WILL LOVE HER ALWAYS..Had the whole world listen to all the messages I believe we would all have been more understanding to one another

I love the truth! Real Talk!!!!

One of my favorite poems

There was and very well never will be again.. in my opinion.. a more beautiful soul to Grace this planet. Bless Miss Maya Angelou's soul..

Her words were/ are water to our spirit. RIP ❤❤❤ wake up Black Americans!

I love you mama

I LOVE THIS WOMAN

Thx from "pale" guy from other side of the ocean, you nailed it and brought me to tears in the middle of some laughter , a blues'er since he was 15 , having had so many blue's , dark blue in (the eyes of my dying mother), light blue (in the eyes of my kids ) like the sky on a clear day's morning ......

No human being can be more human than another human being! I liberate you from my ignorance... love this woman's level of intellect. One of a kind... Born naturally devine! Big ups to you mama 💪❤👍strong love!!!

Ms. Angelou, you will never know how valuable your life has been to so many people. I love you so much so very much💖

2017 and I'm still feeling this as a black woman in America..the world.

Everytime I hear this women my heart fills with goodness she inspires me to be a better person ❤

A force of nature...a phenomenal human being... One of us...

We miss Mama!

Such grace and class. Forever an inspiration.

So inspiring.