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					Originally Posted by Brannigans Law  Does anyone else not give a crap that Maya Angelou died? I mean I of course feel bad for her family and it's sad someone died of course, but, she isn't a national treasure and her poetry sucks. This isn't the passing of Nelson Mandela ffs. | 
	
 
I had to read one of her books in high school.
 
I thought that the book was horrible, and that her writing was terrible.  
 
I still don't see why "everyone" thinks that she is some great writer/poet/speaker/whatever.  I guess, at some point, one's reputation becomes their reality, and no one is willing to acknowledge that the emperor doesn't have any clothes.