Maya Angelou

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Biography

Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. Being a poet, educator, historian,…more

Born

4/4/1928, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

Birth Name

Marguerite Annie Johnson

Gender

Female

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    • Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, falling on her birthday in 1968, left her devastated.
    • Her uncle killed her mother's boyfriend (because she admitted to him that her mother's boyfriend had molested her) and she did not speak to anyone except her brother for five entire years after the murder. She later said that she felt that her words had killed the man.
    • On December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou visited the White House, when she delivered her poem, Amazing Peace at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House.
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    • Maya: You may write me down in history. With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise.
    • Maya: Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy
    • Maya: Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
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