But more than that, Maya’s life, work and wisdom inspired some of today’s most famous names ... Mandela chose Angelou’s words for his inauguration, reciting her poem Still I Rise.
His poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, written when he was 17, is a powerful tribute to the history and resilience of the ...
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 ... in the late19th and early 20th century. If was his most famous poem, published in 1910 and written in the form of advice ...
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 ...
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 ...
The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou ... known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration.
Variations of this quote, the words of the late writer and activist Maya Angelou ... best advice she had ever received from Angelou, broadcasting those famous words to the world — words Oprah ...