Late poet and literary icon Dr Maya Angelou private memorial service will be held this Saturday, June
7, at Wake Forest University and while
its hard to imagine who could deliver words to do her rich life justice according
to reports, her good friend Oprah Winfrey will do the honors. Angelou died last Wednesday ,May 28, at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Oprah has been
remembering her ever since. “I’ve been blessed to have Maya Angelou as
my mentor, mother/sister, and friend since my 20’s,” Winfrey wrote on her Facebook post the
day Angelou died. “She was there for me always, guiding me through some
of the most important years of my life. The world knows her as a poet
but at the heart of her, she was a teacher. ‘When you learn, teach. When you get, give’ is one of my best lessons from her.”
What will the media mogul say at the services to remember her phenomenal
friend? “I don’t know what I will say, but it will just come,” Oprah
told Entertainment Tonight in
an interview where she also recalled the last conversation they
had. During that last conversation, Winfrey says that the late poet was
proud of her role in the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic,
“Selma.” “She said, ‘Take it, baby. Take it all the way,’ because
said was a part of the movement,” Oprah said, nodding to Angelou’s Civil
Rights activism
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