I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's first autobiography, chronicling her life ...

Maya Angelou lived an extraordinary life at breakneck speed. Her story is as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. The victim of traumatising sexual abuse aged ...

The phrase was traced to a children's author named Joan Walsh ... So here's a great piece of life advice we know Maya Angelou gave - because she's on video saying it to Oprah Winfrey.

“I was 15, I was 15 years old when I read my first diverse book, Maya ... Angelou died in 2014 at the age of 86. Winfrey has previously opened up about how the poet made a lasting impact on her ...

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 ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies ... was absent during much of her early childhood. But they grew closer as she got older, and when Angelou ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience ... offering a searingly ...

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 ...

As a new adaptation of Maya Angelou’s final memoir comes to BBC ... It’s a remarkable biography by any standards, one that captures the broad historical sweep of the 20th century African ...

Maya Angelou sadly passed away in 2014, but her spirit will never die as long as young women continue to find strength and inspiration in her words. The ground-breaking poet would have been 89 on ...