(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated ... of President Bill Clinton in 1993. This poem captures the spirit of renewal and change that often accompanies a new era in political ...

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

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 ...

Whether you are a fan of poetry, mystery, horror ... I'll rise.” — Maya Angelou. Famous quote: “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” ...

In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles asked: "All the lonely people—where do they all come from?" The answer to that question is ...

"In the beginning was the word, and the word became poetry, and I discovered it and ... hate is when they try to hold us down and - it's Maya Angelou - still I rise. You try to hold me down ...

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 ...

One of Zephaniah’s most powerful works is Too Black Too Strong, a collection of poems that contains Qian ... the stage with legendary writer Maya Angelou (Pic: Qian Zephaniah) The song led ...

LOS ANGELES — Amid a creative spiral, Orion Sun found comfort among the words of the late Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is not ... Pablo Neruda and Maya Angelou “understand life in the ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who ...