{"id":23413,"date":"2014-06-08T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=23413"},"modified":"2014-06-08T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:12:34","slug":"maya-angelou-remembered-at-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/maya-angelou-remembered-at-memorial-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Angelou remembered at memorial service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family, friends and famous admirers of US author and activist Maya Angelou have held a private memorial service in her honour in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>US First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey were among the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Obama said her words sustained her through life, carrying &#8220;a little black girl from the South Side of Chicago all the way to the White House&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Angelou died at home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last week, aged 86.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clinton praised Angelou for her belief in dignity, love and kindness, and spoke of a time in Angelou&#8217;s childhood when &#8220;she could not speak&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then she developed the greatest voice on the planet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;God loaned her His voice. She had the voice of God, and He decided he wanted it back for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Angelou wrote the poem On the Pulse of Morning and read it at Mr Clinton&#8217;s first presidential inauguration in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>he service was held at Wake Forest University&#8217;s chapel in Winston-Salem, where Angelou taught for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The family has asked the public to make donations to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/MACHE\/\">Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity<\/a>\u00a0in lieu of bringing flowers to the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Angelou wrote more than 30 books including her famous memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which charted a childhood of oppression and abuse in the Deep South in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family, friends and famous admirers of US author and activist Maya Angelou have held a private memorial service in her honour in North Carolina. 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