Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and the former President Bill Clinton spoke at Maya Angelou’s memorial service that took place at Wake Forest University. Read more on the story below!
Many of the late poets friends and family were in attendance at her memorial service that took place at Wake Forest University. Maya Angelou was the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at the University since 1982. She was even planning on teaching a course titled “Race, Culture and Gender in the U.S. South and Beyond” during the fall. Angelou passed away at the age of 86 in her home in North Carolina on May 28th.
At the memorial service Clinton said, “Her great gift in her action-packed life is that she was always paying attention…God loaned her her voice and he decided he wanted it back for a while.” Winfrey said, “She was there for me always, guiding me through some of the most important years of my life.” During her speech, Michelle Obama said, “I was struck by how she celebrated black women’s beauty like no one had ever dared to before…How desperately black girls needed that message. As a black woman I needed that message.”
Check out the video from the memorial service below!
