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Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Mom & Me & Mom (2013) is the seventh of Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies.It was completed 11 years after the publication of her previous autobiography, A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), [note 1] and more than thirty years after she wrote her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Maya Angelou (Photo by Scott Eells/Getty Images) Who was Maya Angelou? Maya Angelou was a Missouri-born poet, writer and civil rights activist who worked with both Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
McPherson states that unlike Christ, whose death and resurrection was being celebrated, it was impossible for Maya to be "born into another life where she will be white and perfect and wonderful", [97] although Angelou creatively uses Christian mythology and theology to present the Biblical themes of death, regeneration, and rebirth in the book ...
Oprah Winfrey has recalled how Maya Angelou’s book helped her cope with the sexual abuse she experienced during her childhood.. The 69-year-old TV host spoke candidly about the late poet’s ...
Maya Angelou quotes about love “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.” ...
Gather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.