You might even be tempted to quote it. That impulse certainly struck the US postal service, which in 2015 put it on a stamp bearing the face of Maya Angelou, the world-renowned writer, professor ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, poet, activist, singer, actress and speaker. During her long and varied career she worked as a journalist in Africa, toured the world as an ...

Friends and family gathered on Saturday afternoon in North Carolina to attend a memorial service in honor of the late author and activist Maya Angelou, who died on May 28 at the age of 86.

If I had stayed there, I would have gone under, like my friend.” Baldwin played a part in getting Maya Angelou’s first novel published. James Baldwin and Maya Angelou shared a special relationship.

Confidence is a major motivator and can be a big factor in success. Celebrities and other notable people share their definitions of it and experiences with it in these powerful words of wisdom.

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The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...

Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive ...

Maya Angelou: Make your own path In her book ... made her a target of nasty criticism "entirely disconnected from facts." At first these attacks made her angry, but she eventually learned ...

Vol. 58, No. 1/2, SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bir... Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" And the Advantages of a Pluralist Close Reading This is the ...

Dallas Fire-Rescue crews responded to the site of the former Maya Angelou High School, at 3313 South Beckley Ave., at about 4:24 a.m. after a passerby reported seeing flames coming from the roof ...