![]() ![]() She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning. It cuts through complexity and connects us to what matters. Maya Angelou (/ n d l o / AN-j-loh born Marguerite Annie Johnson Ap May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. When I began my latest book, writing about simplicity in a complex world and how we needed to reconnect to what matters, to reset out priorities and rebalance in a world which, even pre-pandemic, felt badly wrong, I knew my source of inspiration was Maya and her “Keep it Simple, Sweetie” mantra.īecause Maya understood that simple isn’t simplistic. Over the years I saw Maya in New York, I stayed with her in her beautiful home in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and on each occasion she would teach me something I did not know, because as her friend Oprah said of her: “The world knows her as a poet, but at the heart of her, she was a teacher”. Maya Angelou, the great American author and poet, was known for her award-winning autobiographies as well as for her numerous plays, scripts, poems. I met the trumpeter Hugh Masekela with her, and the anti-apartheid activist Adelaide Tambo, and of course, Jessica ‘Decca’ Mitford, the arch-rebel aristocrat who once rescued Maya from arrest in America on a protest march by telling the police officer “Sir, I am her mother!”. The United States Mint recently began shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou, the first coins in its American Women Quarters. #MAYA ANGELOU SERIES#She had a great friendship with Jon Snow, the Channel 4 broadcaster, and he would host parties for her with a glittering diaspora of people from Africa, Europe, America. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was not just a poet, of course: she was an influential civil rights campaigner in the United States, and her autobiography. Maya Angelou becomes 1st Black woman featured on US quarters The legendary author and poet, who died in 2014, is the first featured in a series of new quarters issued by the U.S. Published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings received international acclaim made the bestseller list. With the guidance of her friend, the novelist James Baldwin, she began work on the book that would become I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Read more: The Vogue Editors' Favourite Books Of All Time Maya Angelou and Jean Seberg were just some of the women who faced everything from racism and sexism to transphobia, yet produced some of cinemas most. In the late 1950’s Maya Angelou joined the Harlem Writer’s Guild. Maya Angelou becomes 1st Black woman featured on US quarters Alone Together an intimate portrait of a world in lockdown. ![]()
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