She taught us that life is a constant choice.  Every day you have to get up and make a choice.  Will you choose light or darkness? Will you choose to reach out or draw in?  Choose to speak out or shut up?  Will you be paralyzed by your past and your failures or will you forgive yourself enough to be unchained?  History despite its wrenching pain need not be lived again.

President Bill Clinton quoting from Maya Angelou at her memorial service