Maya Angelou

Posted by Andrew on May 30, 2014

It is with sadness that the team at Superior Personnel note the passing yesterday of Maya Angelou, a world renowned author and poet, aged 86.

Angelou's quote is on the wall in the reception area of our new office:

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".

Angelou wrote seven autobiographies focusing on her childhood and early adult experiences in Stamps, Arkansas. The first in 1969, I know why the caged bird sings" was based on her life up until she was seventeen and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became very active in the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr. and later Malcolm X. In 1993 she recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration address. In 2011 President Barack Obama presented Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (The President's sister is named Maya, after Angelou).

And so it is appropriate today that we pause and note the legacy she leaves behind.