The Bitter Defeat Of Maya Angelou

<p>Joining the Army had been a bust.</p> <p>Being an entrepreneur as an owner-operator of a brothel had been a bust.</p> <p>Living in the Deep South as a young black woman had been a bust.</p> <p>It seemed that everywhere she went and whatever she put her mind to do, mighty forces were fighting her and preventing her from success which was always out of reach and beyond her grasp.</p> <p>Today, we might even say that the universe was trying to tell her something. Close friends and family at the time would have told her that god was trying to get her attention.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/fourth-wave/the-bitter-defeat-of-maya-angelou-bef763c3f5a9"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>