[mellosouls]

Shakespeare was actually empathetic enough to have called out across the centuries to very different people, as well as being supreme in his use of words and ideas.

There is nothing "just another man of his times" about him.

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He wrote it for me.

"When in disgrace with fortune in men's eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state / and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries / and look upon myself and curse my fate / wishing me like to one more rich in hope / featured like him, like him with friends possessed / desiring this man's art and that man's scope / with what I most enjoy contented least. . . ."

Of course he wrote it for me; that is a condition of the black woman. Of course, he was a black woman. I understand that. Nobody else understands it, but I know that William Shakespeare was a black woman.

- Maya Angelou.

http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2015/04/shakespeare-was-black-w...