IN HER OWN WORDS

IN HER OWN WORDS

ADVICE FOR LIFE: “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud,” from her book “Letter to My Daughter.”

LEGACY: Angelou wrote when her friend Nelson Mandela died: “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again, and bring the dawn.” President Barack Obama used those words to remember Angelou as “one of the brightest lights of our time — a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.”

FINAL TWEET: “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.” (Posted May 23).