Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched ... works like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” to her plays and poetry, ...

Published in 1978, Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

She then ended the speech by reciting an extract from Still I Rise, crediting it to “my favourite poet, Maya Angelou." When he decided to have a poem read as part of his inauguration as US ...

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

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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 ...

Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets of New York, Paris and London? Never before have we been so attentive on the morning commute, our eyes darting around the ...

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 ...

[Note: Business Insider has reached out to Bill and Hillary Clinton and have not yet recieved a response regarding Dr. Maya ... to Dr. Angelou in 1993, when she read her poem "On the Pulse of ...