I just found out that Maya Angelou is black[views:2225][posts:17]________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:12pm - xmikex ""] worst. writer. ever. |
| _____________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:16pm - Woah!_Shut_It_Down! ""] Only writing about rape allegorically is real. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:19pm - arilliusbm ""] 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. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:19pm - Alx_Casket ""] this thread is racist |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:34pm - DrewBloodMobile ""] David Alan Grier as Maya Angelou |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:34pm - DrewBloodMobile ""] god dammit, wrong link bennyhillifier |
| ________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 1:42pm - xmikex ""] arilliusbm said:only having her speak at your school the night of Super Bowl XXXVI and having the best excuse ever to snub a hack writer is real. fuxed. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 3:21pm - xmikex ""] Drew this is hilarious. David Alan Grier will forever be more talented than Maya Angelou. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 3:53pm - bobnomaamrooney ""] Hey, why the hate? Her Madea movies were sort of funny. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:21pm - xmikex ""] 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. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:23pm - arktouros ""] only ultra-tragic Shakespearean leads are real |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:28pm - Alx_Casket ""] ...as we continue yearning to understand the black man's hamartia... |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:28pm - swampthing ""] sometimes you just have to pee in the sink |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:30pm - bobnomaamrooney ""] 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. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:32pm - xmikex ""] Othello or GTFO |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 4:36pm - bobnomaamrooney ""] [img] |
| _____________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 6:02pm - Woah!_Shut_It_Down! ""] Shimmyshimmyyashimmyyoshimmyyay Beans and cornbread, I eat 'em all day. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 28,2011 9:59pm - conservationist ""] Woah!_Shut_It_Down! said:Only writing about rape allegorically is real. Wait, so she's fucking Tori Amos now? |