Maya Angelou Quarter Now in Circulation

Why does Uma Thurman’s daughter have a coin?

She looks like Tinker Bell!

R1, Same reason why straight men's eyes will be drawn to the figure's breasts, as compared to the face, head, and hair of the men on other US coins.

Was she ever that thin?

Who's she wearing? Halston?

Anyone else immediately get an image of Julie Andrews with her outstretched arms in "The Sound of Music" or the depiction of an angel?

Can someone Woke explain why Maya Angelou was chosen rather than another Black woman trailblazer from earlier history?

I got my own fuckin' coin!

How wonderful - this coin to commemorate my starring role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard! Do you hear that, Paramount? Do you hear the people spend?

[Quote]Was she ever that thin?

Yes.

"But by the age of forty, as she revealed in her seven volumes of autobiography, she had already had an astonishing range of jobs, including short-order cook, waitress, prostitute, madam (running a lesbian whorehouse, aged just eighteen), tram attendant, nightclub singer and dancer, actress, theatre director, political organiser for Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, journalist and newspaper editor in Egypt and Ghana, and TV script writer."

Goodness. What a storied career...

A QUARTER!!!!!!??????

WTF. We will be marching in the streets.

Here she is, singing calypso music in some old movie.

What did she do exactly to merit a coin? The first I heard of her was when she recited her poem at Bill Clinton's inaugural and then after that she seemed to be associated with Oprah, always encouraging, and then increasingly there were snark stories about her divadom. Surely there were other black women who were worthy of the distinction? I mean, obviously there are. I'm just confused why her.

The first whore on US currency!

That's DOCTOR Maya Angelou, muffukkahs! She's the first "doctor" on US currency!

I was molested.

R10 - she was a hustler and a grifter. A SHAM, her entire life. It's appalling the respect and cred she gets.

Does anyone even carry a pocketful of change anymore? I don’t think I could say who’s on the quarter now besides George Washington.

There are 50 states on the quarter. But it's standard White People America on the coins.

[quote]I don’t think I could say who’s on the quarter now besides George Washington.

Vivian Vance for the odd years, George for the even.

R13. That you’d never heard of her before that speaks more to your cultural illiteracy than anything. I think she was a second rate poet and her insistence on the title Dr. based on an honorary doctorate she no doubt received for speaking at a commencement was silly, but I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is one of the great American memoirs.

R21, spare me your fucking grandeur, you pompous ass. But I hope it made you feel better because obviously small things do.

As a poet, Maya Angelou was the Amanda Gorman of her generation.

I know what the laundromat quarter brings.

R10 Dear Lord what an ugly puss. Caged bird my gay ass. She was as ugly on the inside as she was on the outside.

R21. If you see my post as “grandeur” (pompous or otherwise), I can only imagine what your reading and writing level must be.

She was such a known phony.

First Major Asian Actress, Lucy Liu, will soon have her own quarter?

Plagiarist as well.

Incomparable Colman Domingo as Dr. angelou

Capturing the grandeur and self importance

I collected all the 50 state quarters . . . until I needed them during the pandemic and I spend every last one of them. Oh well.

A quarter is not nearly pretentious enough for this phony.

Anna May Wong is the Asian actress

[quote]Does anyone even carry a pocketful of change anymore? I don’t think I could say who’s on the quarter now besides George Washington.

Who even carries cash anymore except old people?

I think I'd rather have our gal OPRAH on the quarter

Strong Black Woman,

Little Black Dress.

George Floyd is a more suitable representation of the black community. Colored folks are so proud of his contributions to society.

[quote]First Major Asian Actress, Lucy Liu

Fuck you, R28.

Crispity crunchity

This is a sham! The first black lady on the quarter should've been the world's most important journalist Gayle King!

I like her but she’s not a great poet. Maybe a step above Rod McKuen.

As a symbol, she is fabulous

R40, Thanks for your post but none of this makes sense. No to Sally Ride too representing White women on a coin.

Why not Sally Ride?

I want the Maya Angelou toilet paper.

r15 she wasn't a doctor. Maya Angelou had an HONORARY PhD, not a real one. If you don't work for one, you don't get the title.

OP = worse than Hitler and Dr. Adolf Hitler

Blow it out your cunt r47 this is the active thread

R45 Even when brand new it looks used. Quite fascinating actually.

The Woke Agenda strikes again.

Who’s next, Caitlin Jenner?!

Toucan Sam you leap on the back of the wind!

I loved her poem An Ode To A Frozen Giraffe 🦒

Maya, being stunning and brave.

No corruption rumors for Wilma Mankiller?

And where the fuck is our Dionne Warwick dime?

She gets a quarter?

I wrote fucking The Bluest Eye. Beloved. Song of FUCKING Solomon.

I better get on that damn $20.

Fuck Harriet.

Real Toni Morrison would have flexed her Nobel Prize, R56.

Please R57. No one but boring as fuck academics know about my Nobel.

I want be on a coin, damn it.

Toni's still alive? She was old when I knew her and I was young.

OOPs, RIP Toni.

Fuck, I mean really . Why not Sojourner Truth?

Honor Madam C. J. Walker.

I love when the racist queens get all bent out of shape over something like this ... that has ZERO impact on their day-to-day life.

Put Dr. Angelou on the $50 bill and Harriet Tubman on the $100 bill (instead of the $20 bill).

1. Because they fucking deserve it. 2. Because I want to see the Karens, Proud Boys and all the other intolerant assholes lose their shit over it on social media and have meltdowns.

Dr. Angelou on the $50 bill only if the bill contains a NFC chip that plays Stone Cold Dead in the Market on any nearby smart phone

R65, there are plenty of POC who deserve to be on the currency more than a mediocre poet. How about Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or, if we move on from women, Thurgood Marshall, MLK Jr, or Black Elk?

Secondly we shouldn't be doing this to piss people off. Furthering division and anger is bad for everyone. We should do it for educational purposes and to broaden our definition of what it means to be an American.

I meant that for R64 (Chaos)

How many are familiar with the courageous acts of Sojourner Truth?

R63, Honestly I've never even heard of her but I'd rather she her face on a quarter. Admire those who battle against near impossible odds to be a leader and source of inspiration.

Oprah wants to be on the chocolate coin with the gold foil wrapping.

[quote] The first whore on US currency!

Venn eet shoot huv been ME!

Points off for Sojourner:

Her real name was Isabella Baumfree. She changed her name in her 40s.

She was from New York. That's not the south!

R69- WRONG

Oprah wants to EAT the chocolate coin with the gold foil wrapping.

THE chocolate coin? How about a thousand of them?

The deplorables aren’t going to want these in their pockets.

R73- The OWN network is presenting a TWO HOUR special where Oprah talks about how much she LOVES eating.

This is absolutely disgraceful that CIS woman Maya Angelou appears ahead of a coin ahead of Marsha P Johnson. This coin is LITERALLY transphobic and LITERALLY kill millions of trans women of color, non-color and invisible-to-the-human-eye-colors-of-the-spectrum with it's circulation.

Wasn't she a great big fat person?

[quote] Anna May Wong is the Asian actress

Why her?

That doesn’t even vaguely resemble her. I’m cracking up. Maya Angelou was a great big fat person who dressed in Chico’s and headwraps, not sexy strapless gowns.

Revisionist nonsense.

The only resemblance is in the broad cheekbones and the head wrap.

Sally Ride must be the first self-acknowledged lesbian on US currency.

r78 That's Nancy Kwan.

I'm waiting for the Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman quarter.

a black person I know on social noted that there's a slaveowner on the front of the same coin. I don't know if that means they want Jefferson entirely 'erased' or what

Was she really Mayan?

It's so weird to me that people still use cash and change. I guess they haven't arrived in the 21st Century yet.

I pay with exact change or with enough coins to get back only bills. The old timer cashiers are very quick, but the younger dipshits can’t add or subtract to save their souls.

r87 it's more the trouble they don't use currency, isn't it? Just as many are confused by addressing an envelope, telling time or any other basic life skill that even the developmentally challenged are still taught but has been lost to technology for most of them them. Well, technology or over coddled environments that catered to their overinflated self importance.

Those damn newfangled telephones are ruining the young people! They don't even know how to send telegrams anymore!

r87/r88 the world changes. People move on from old tech and adopt new tech. Younger generations have to keep up, unlike older generations who are no longer part of the working world and don't really participate in society anymore.

r90 Part of keeping up is not becoming lazy on the new and neglecting the old. 'lest they become as helpless and useless as the geezers

[quote] People move on from old tech and adopt new tech.

Is the ability to do sums in one’s head ‘old tech’? Is innumeracy among young workers the new technology that at awaits us?

Lots of people suck at math. It's been that way forever. I recently saw an interview with Fran Lebowitz and she said she can barely do simple addition and subtraction in her head, and she's hopeless at anything else.

Why not Barbara Jordan?

Barbara Jordan would've been a good choice. She was one fierce dyke!

I remember studying Jordan in grade school. She was very accomished and broke a lot of barriers for her time. Sadly, largely forgotten now.

I'd rather have the MABEL KING quarter in circulation. Raising Rog and Dee as an OBESE SINGLE woman was a major accomplishment.

R92 Actually, the most adhered to philosophy of Math Education in the US and internationally at present is Singapore Math which has “Mental Math” at its core, so it very much back in vogue.

But will she be on Bitcoin?

I hereby nominate DL legend Roxane Gay for the $2 bill!

Why does she look like Kelli O’Hara?

I’m earning my coin NOW.

R100 More like a three dollar bill

I hope I'm not forgotten.

You know Oprah made her caged bird sing.

#notthrowingshade

Maya Angelou on the Quarter is all part of the NOTHING MATTERS AND ANYTHING GOES philosophy nowadays.

R53, holy shite. My first time seeing that — she was much more of an arrogant cunt than I realized.

R53-MOTHER JEFFERSON ( Zara Cully) is more deserving of a coin than MA

Doesn't Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks get any love. Rosa gets park of the shitty 10 Freeway in WLA. Maya Angelous is overrated. MISS Angelou, I should say.

r53's clip made me think of Chris Farley as Matt Foley - "well la-di-frickin-DA!"

That woman should have asked Ms. Angelou what her tricks called her.

Maya wandered into my art gallery once. She was so extraordinary that I closed and ordered us lunch. Three hours later we were still chatting. I have met and known some amazing people but she was really something special.

She sent me a box with her books with a lovely note I framed. Truly remarkable person.

R112, did she sign the note as DOCTOR Angelou?

Miss Angelou if you’re nasty.

I would have preferred Shirley Hemphill on a quarter in circulation. She was tough, fair minded and friendly and unpretentious UNLIKE MA.

Marlo Thomas once announced to a friend of mine that Maya Angelou was a cunt.

Loved her autobiographies, but her poetry was pompous and self-centered. But she was a master storyteller.

The KUM. QUAT. The KI. WI.

I fully support a Shirley Hemphill coin.

I remember comedian Drew Droege (sp?) had a bit in which he tore her to shreds, claiming her to be a name-dropping hypocrite and a generally unpleasant person. While I like Angelou's work generally, I appreciated his candor in discussing his perspective of her (he was a student or assistant of hers or something).

I read a magazine article discussing her like that too, r120. No doubt she had some insufferable moments.

Drew Droege: Maya Angelou Is An Asshole

Angelou's poetry was not very good, but her memoirs are terrific.

This is the comedian Drew Droege's account of taking a class with her at Wake Forest University in NC, where he was an undergraduate, and being disillusioned by her pretentiousness and snobbery. It's from Jonny McGovern's talk show.

The relevant part starts at 2:10. Droege (whose haircut here is indefensible) is best known for doing the hilarious impersonations of Chloe Sevigny on clips you can find on youtube.

I always thought it was fascinating how many black and mixed-race comedians did imitations of her. Probably my favorite of all is this one by Tracey Morgan on SNL ("It's my favorite...").

Obviously her pompous demeanor was considered ridiculous by many in the black community while she was alive.

And here's Maya Rudoph doing a parody for SNL of Betty White's prank show: "Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Laughs"

"Zowie!"

Why give a quarter to her when she had fame, fortune, and accolade. Which is fine, she has put out work people find powerful, Why not use a historical black women who contributed to America when there was no love, no Miss Angeleou, when she was just trying to freedom fight or do the right thing.

Martin Luther King would be FAR MORE appropriate on a quarter then MIZZ Angelou

Did I ever tell any of you about the time Nina Simone brutally stabbed me? I still have the scars...

That bird looks nothing like one that would be in a cage, let alone singing?

[quote]The first whore on US currency!

I vant a coin. Make it a gold coin.

^^^ I like folding money, too.

If the GAYS were in charge the quarter would have to depict someone HOT like Brad Pitt ca. 1995.

Colored Money !!! Well, I Never !!!