Its the birthday of Missourian Maya Angelou , born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis in 1928, whose 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was a big best-seller. It begins: When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed — To Whom It May Concern — that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson. Our parents had decided to put an end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother.--thanks to The Writers Almanac I like her observation: Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:06:07 +0000