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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
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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).
A new trailer for "Simone Biles Rising" from Netflix shows the gymnast in action, set to Viola Davis reading an excerpt from "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou.
Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans, a 1997 book coauthored by Roland Owen Laird Jr. and Taneshia Nash Laird Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans, a 2009 update of the 1997 book; Still I Rise, a 1999 album by 2Pac and the Outlawz "Still I Rise", a song by Yolanda Adams from the 1998 album Songs from the Heart ...