Angelou, Maya

A twentieth-century African-American writer, whose best-known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , an autobiographical account of growing up as a black girl in the rural South. Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton 's 1993 inaugural ceremony.

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The day we shot that scene, it was her first day on set and Maya Angelou had died that morning.

Out of deep injury, Maya Angelou had a way of finding universal hope.

One need not be a believer, as I am, to know that Maya Angelou will so fully live on.

And thank you, Maya Angelou, for showing us glimpses of God.

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