maya angelou is appreciated as my literary mother, because she has birthed amongst women and men alike: "the meaning of expression." In the educated paths of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks; I move to empower no matter the consequences...believing that i am supposed to relinquish my last breath for the cause of Him who gave me my first. So in all ways of a man, i shall move to support she who conducts her-self in all ways of a woman "appropriate",nominating propriety as being the first "must", we are to become lessoned to.