I remember reading a little of Maya Angelou's stuff, it wasn't bad but just wasn't all that exceptional, it was like she earned 'Poet Laureate' the way Obama earned the Presidency -- by being Black and minimally qualified. However, she at least has a net positive value though I wouldn't put it particularly high, while the entire lot of the Kardassians are a bottomless pit of actual negative value, exalted for being the poster children of soulless, mindless, superficial materialism and narcissism.