(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated voices in modern American literature, used her poetry as a profound medium to explore themes of identity, resilience, love, and the ...

From autobiographical works like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” to her plays and poetry, Angelou has ... Below, you'll ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In this sensitively rendered biography of Maya Angelou (1928–2014), the Roops describe how, early in life, “Words whirled and stories spun in Maya’s head and off her lips.” After she ...