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Angelou On The Power Of Words (CBS News)

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The comments shock jock Don Imus made about the Rutgers women's basketball team sparked off a national debate about the power of words. Poet Maya Angelou joins Russ Mitchell to discuss. (CBSNews.com)

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  • too wise and graceful for words.

  • @Dredgephantom2 Your the type of people we don't need in this world. She is very inspiring and full of wisdom. Something you wouldn't know.

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  • Im 12, But im still reading her books

  • i watched this today in school :p

  • @tonyfalca but yes, i know, talk is cheap

  • i dont think many people realize that they themselves are the ones who choose what kind of value is applied to language, or words. instead of adopting the values of somebody else, create your own...

  • @waywa13 Too graceful for words; except for her eloquent manner of expression, because I'm sure she could describe it well :)

  • Maya you are an Angel.

  • @bermudaguy1 ...I agree with you. Peace to you also!

  • @dancer95849 I had to laugh when I saw your comment! It's what I said just as I decided to change my life....not in a religious way, because I'm an atheist now, but just who I wanted to be and to accept full responsibility for what happens in my life. A rhetorical question...who do you want to be?

    I've said this b4, we are all equal, but what makes us different is the quality of the choices we make!

    Peace.

  • @bermudaguy1 ...Yep, i want to fucking move on, i'm tired of this shit!

  • Accountability wow I thought it was a lost virtue ! I am comforted to hear anything that even comes close to be accountable right or wrong , all I have heard for a very long time that nothing is either right or wrong and yes ! Finally ,,,,it may be coming back because without right and wrong in this crazy world in which we live there is absolutely nothing !

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