you almost convinced me to start capitalizing the first word of every sentence with your comment regarding my grammar, but the effort it would take to press the shift key to do that isn't worth satisfying your bizarre fetish for proper grammar.

an aside regarding that: some of my colleagues are the brightest minds in their respective fields in the world, but they couldn't give a shit less about "proper" grammar, writing, et cetera when it comes to casual discussion. why? because it doesn't fucking matter if you understand the message being conveyed. if you need every linguistic input that goes through your brain to be formatted in a exact, precise way to understand what is being discussed, then it is you who is clearly the lesser intelligence.

back on topic, just because a person was "extremely" influential (what does "extremely" even mean here?) does not mean that I, nor anyone, should necessarily have to respect said person or his/her works and contributions. the fact of the matter is, I happen to have a minority opinion regarding angelou and her work, and i've still yet (as of typing this response anyways) to receive a single response to my original comment (which has now been censored by the mods, thanks a lot) that actually presents a coherent argument toward why I should respect her. every response has attacked me personally by calling me an idiot for not having the majority opinion of glorifying what is to me relatively shallow work in literature. if there is any display of ignorance, it is not from i but from all of you who fail to raise a single, legitimate argument as to why angelou deserves praise.

I will admit that I have little common sense and respect. when you get to being as intelligent as I am, you can't help but look down at people such as yourself, though I am sure you have no idea what that must feel like. I don't care if you have multiple degrees, because they are probably from institutions that don't even rank in the top ten (let me guess, you have a phd from all the ivy leagues now right?).

Regarding my "extraction of information": but you do have some issue. clearly. otherwise, why did you even bother responding to my post? and it is indeed the case that you did not communicate effectively (to me), and I am the only capable judge of that for how can a third party determine how well i understood the content of your response?

stooping to a small and ignorant blah blah... well, i will not deny that i am disrespectful. i am fully aware of that as i consciously choose to disrespect those unworthy of my respect. but small and ignorant? come on, if you are going to insult me then you should try a little harder than that. additionally, it is cute how you are basically saying that you couldn't have insulted my intelligence since it never existed to begin with. once again, you are attacking not the original argument i made regarding whether or not angelou deserves praise (the argument raised by my insulting her), but my intelligence. let's please leave my intelligence out of this, not for my sake but for yours because you will lose any argument you could possibly make if we are arguing who between us two is more intelligent.

Finally, I did NOT delete my original post. it was REMOVED by a mod, and I am personally insulted by that since I had to take time to write it out.