run for anything, I've got your back. I'd never heard of Senator Obama. So when she said she was running for president I said, 'I've got your back.'"When it became clear that Hillary could not win, some Democratic party grandees asked her to try to persuade Hillary to step down. "I told them, 'I'm backing her. I'll step down when she steps down.' When she stepped down, I went over to President Obama."
She concedes that she never thought America would put a black man in the White House in her lifetime.
from The Guardian: Maya Angelou: 'I'm fine as wine in the summertime'
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