Comprehensive information about Maya Angelou including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning African American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 8 1928 and died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 28, 2014. Angelou was also a dancer, an actress and a singer. This educational Maya Angelou resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Wouldn' Go to Quote / Comment
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. Go to Quote / Comment
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Go to Quote / Comment
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. Go to Quote / Comment
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Go to Quote / Comment