Maya Angelou, this extraordinary personality, this much more than a poet and writer, civil rights activist, educator, actress, dancer, thinker and life dweller, left this world on May 28, 2014. She found me ignorant back at my university years, she left me dazzled about the wit and the dynamics of the American Black individual and their history as a whole.
Just a few references to her:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou