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4 Apr 2017 · Maya Angelou’s electrifying poem “Still I Rise" captures so well the tone of the 2017 Skoll World Forum. Written nearly 40 years ago, this classic anthem fee...
28 Mei 2014 · Celebrated memoirist and poet Maya Angelou, 86, who was found dead Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., was a high school dropout who became a professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Angelou was an American Study herself. “I have created myself,” she told USA TODAY in 2007, “I have taught myself so much.”
24 Mei 2024 · Maya Angelou, American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression. She is perhaps best known for her autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Maya Angelou’s electrifying poem “Still I Rise” captures so well the tone of the 2017 Skoll World Forum. Written nearly 40 years ago, this classic anthem feels absolutely current, somehow prescient, and informed the Forum theme: Fault Lines, Creating Common Ground.
Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet.
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