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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 ...
The Maya Angelou Birthplace in St. Louis, Missouri is a 19th century two-story home where writer, poet and activist Maya Angelou was born and spent the first three years of her life. The house, at 3120 Hickory Street, lies in the Gate District of St. Louis. When her parents divorced in 1931, Angelou and her brother, Bailey were sent to live ...
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).
Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1993. ... Born in St. Louis in 1928, Angelou spent much of her childhood with her grandmother in ...
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra, Ghana.
Angelou rose to international prominence after her groundbreaking autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in 1969.The coming-of-age story depicts the author’s early years and explores ...
‘That book gave a voice to my silences, my secrets,’ she says
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 ...