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Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
Below, bold women like Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dolly Parton drive that point home, inspiring all of us to use power within us to make a change — for us and all the ...
America's most visible black woman autobiographer". [10] She had also become, as reviewer Richard Long stated, "a major autobiographical voice of the time". [11] Angelou was one of the first African-American female writers to publicly discuss her personal life, and one of the first to use herself as a central character in her books.
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
The details of Angelou's life described in her seven autobiographies and in numerous interviews, speeches, and articles tended to be inconsistent. Critic Mary Jane Lupton has explained that when Angelou spoke about her life, she did so eloquently, but informally, and "with no time chart in front of her."
Angelou had no daughters herself, but was inspired to write Letter as she was going through 20 years of notes and essay ideas, some of which were written for her friend Oprah Winfrey. Angelou wrote the book for the thousands of women who saw her as a mother figure, and to share the wisdom gained throughout her long life.
Many of these quotes come from historical changemakers, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, and great writers and philosophers, such as Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde.
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]