MAYA ANGELOU

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO U.S. CULTURE

* wrote and produced television miniseries: Three Way Choice and documentaries: Afro-Americans in the Arts:got Golden Eagle Award

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*first African American women to hit the bestseller lists, publishing 11 best-selling books such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

*Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations

* obtained two Tony nominations as an actress

* first black woman director in Hollywood: wrote, produced, directed,and starred in productions for stage, film, and television

BIOGRAPHY

Born:April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson

* early on she performed at Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco where she picked up the name Maya Angelou

* Mid-thirties:married South African freedom fighter and lived in Cairo where she edited The Arab Observer: only English-language news weekly in Middle East

*speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti = relate to all minorities

*1981: lifetime position at Wake Forest University as first Reynolds Professor of American Studies

HIGHLY ACKNOWLEDGED BY..

* Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: named her northern coordinator for Southern Christian Leadership Conference

* Gerald Ford: appointed her to Bicentennial Commission

http://147.129.1.10/icnews/vol21/21-02/angelou.htm

* Jimmy Carter: appointed her to National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and recognized her as "one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman" (Carter in Schafer Online)

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it (Angelou in http://www.dailycelebrations.com/maya2.htm).

Link to other Angelou quotes

Favorite Links

Link to Angelou's Life Mosaic Collection

Click here to find out about Angelou's new Life Mosaic program with Hallmark

http://www.

josonline.comHmkGifts/maya/mayaframedsent.htm

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Link to listen to Angelou at the Million Man March

Maya Angelou Information

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/Authors/MayaAngelou.

html#authorpic.

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*1st American poet to write and recite a poem at an Presidential Inauguration

*President Clinton's Inauguration in January 1993

On the Pulse of the Morning

But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forecefully.

Come, you may stand upon my

Back and face your distant destiny,

But seek no haven in my shadow.

I will five you no hiding place down here

(Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning, in Angelou Online).

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Other poems: 1: A Brave and Startling 2. Phenomenal Woman 3. Why Don't You Sing?

"Phenomenal Woman"

...Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me...

(Angelou. "Phenomenal Woman" in Schafer Online)

Maya Angelou Information Page

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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