Read the interview on why Maya Angelou will not pass on an opportunity to talk about HIV/AIDS.
Here’s a piece:
“Oh, my dear,” Maya Angelou says softly, “so many freinds are dead. So many loved friends are dead because of AIDS. My mind just runs over the list which seems to be unending. It’s just a devstating dragon breathing flame that burns out whole neighborhoods, whole families.
“I think some people think that a person with AIDS is himself or herself the victim and so it all stops there. It is never so. It’s a little like marriage. Two people never marry, families marry, and friends marry. Suddenly there’s a community married. Well, when a person is ill and/or dies, so many people are lessened, families are crippled, and their full strength is not there anymore. So everybody hurts—the romantic partners and the business partners. When one person dies, everything has to be rearranged and you can never get it back. Whew, it affects everybody,” she says with a sigh. Her words hurl such emotional power, you feel like you’ve been hit in the stomach.
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