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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 ...
Sister, Sister is a 1982 American drama television movie written by Maya Angelou and starring Diahann Carroll, Rosalind Cash, and Irene Cara. [2] The film tells the story of three sisters who come together to decide the fate of their family home after the death of their revered father.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979, on CBS. Angelou and Leonora Thuna wrote the screenplay, and the movie was directed by Fielder Cook. Constance Good played the young Maya Angelou.
Immediately afterward, she was sued by Shaw for the film rights, and spent the next 17 years fighting in court for the rights to her film. While she eventually won, it was a lost film until 2022.
Down in the Delta is a 1998 American-Canadian drama film, directed by Maya Angelou (in her only film directing effort) and starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance before her death), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.
Maya Angelou's writing is full of wisdom, compassion, and understanding. ... Today I am blessed.” “Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all ...
Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia (1972) was the first original film script by a black woman to be produced. [9] [10] and she was the first African-American woman to direct a major motion picture, Down in the Delta, in 1998. [11] Since the 1990s, Angelou participated in the lecture circuit, [8] which she continued into her eighties. [12] [13]
Guy Johnson, the son and only child of late poet Maya Angelou, has died at age 77. Angelou’s official Facebook The post Maya Angelou’s son, Guy Johnson, dies at 77 appeared first on TheGrio.