"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it." - Maya Angelou
Read MoreMaybe loving this song is cliche and maybe in some ways, my story is everybody's story. But, I can remember making 10 hour drives to college from home, listening to this song on a cassette - over and over until the tape broke. Every word was perfect then and they're still perfect now. I still get chills and my eyes well up thinking about that girl driving on that long highway, so long ago. Happy birthday, Bruce, and thanks.
On the last day of his life, in the last minutes of his life, Michael Brown stole cigars. That's what the security cameras tell us. They say: Don't you see? It's okay that they killed him, even though some of the circumstances around his death remain murky. Because he really was a bad guy. Wasn't he?
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