Maya Angelou (/ˈændʒəloʊ/ AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist...
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The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, plays, poetry, and teleplays. She also had an active directing, acting, and speaking career. She is...
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Maya Angelou, an African-American writer who is best known for her seven autobiographies, was also a prolific and successful poet. She has been called...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (category Books by Maya Angelou)
autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that...
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encompassed in African-American writer Maya Angelou's seven autobiographies include racism, identity, family, and travel. Angelou (1928–2014) is best known for...
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The Maya Angelou Academy at New Beginnings, renamed from Oak Hill Academy in May 2009, is an alternative school operated by the non-profit See Forever...
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James Forman Jr. (section The Maya Angelou School)
2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and a co-founder of the Maya Angelou School in Washington, D.C. In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical...
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African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was honored by universities, literary organizations, government agencies, and special interest...
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founded the "Phenomenal" fashion company, Harris being inspired by a 1978 Maya Angelou poem titled Phenomenal Woman. It then branched out to include the Phenomenal...
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Paul du Feu (category Maya Angelou)
known for his marriages to the feminist Germaine Greer and the poet Maya Angelou. In 1973, he published the memoir Let's Hear it for the Long-legged Women...
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And Still I Rise (category Poetry by Maya Angelou)
author Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978. It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career;...
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Imazighen (1996). She has collaborated on books with David Goldblatt and Maya Angelou. In 2007, Courtney-Clarke had solo exhibitions at New York State Museum...
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African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou, features many characters, including Angelou as a child, which she has called "the Maya character". The first in...
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American Women quarters (category Maya Angelou)
in 2022 are: Maya Angelou, the first Black woman featured on U.S. currency. Designed by Emily Damstra, who said her depiction of Angelou "convey[s] the...
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States, Barack Obama. She has said she was named after American poet Maya Angelou. Soetoro-Ng and Obama spent several years together in Indonesia and in...
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and Horemheb of Egypt Maya Ackerman, Russian-American computer scientist Maya Ali (born 1989), Pakistani actress Maya Angelou (1928–2014), African-American...
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she gave birth to Jama, and she named her after the US author and poet Maya Angelou. She also has a brother. Jama's father was in prison for most of her...
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On the Pulse of Morning (category Poetry by Maya Angelou)
and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became...
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Gather Together in My Name (category Books by Maya Angelou)
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...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (film) (category Maya Angelou)
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...
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women (category Books by Maya Angelou)
Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal...
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Mom & Me & Mom (category Books by Maya Angelou)
final book in author Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies. The book was published shortly before Mother's Day and Angelou's 85th birthday. It focuses...
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(1992) On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993) Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994) Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995) It Takes a Village – Hillary...
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Collected Poems of Maya Angelou is author and poet Maya Angelou's collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1994. It is Angelou's first collection...
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poem is often considered to be about the struggle of African-Americans. Maya Angelou titled her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from a line...
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(1992) On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993) Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994) Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995) It Takes a Village – Hillary...
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Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons, Lisa Arrindell, Maya Angelou, Rochelle Aytes, Jenifer Lewis, Tangi Miller, Keke Palmer, and Cicely...
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(1992) On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993) Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994) Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995) It Takes a Village – Hillary...
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July 26, 2020. My first day as an actor, Cicely Tyson played my mother, Maya Angelou played my grandmother. "LeVar Burton: Awards and Nominations". Television...
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(1992) On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993) Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994) Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995) It Takes a Village – Hillary...
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