The autobiographer whose frank thoughtful sharing of her life's journey continues to captivate, challenge, and inspire readers of all ages around the world. She's the writer sharing hard-earned wisdom, humorous and painful truths and powerful affirmations, urging her readers to laugh, to dare, to strive, to dream, to love, to say Yes! to life. She's the tall, imposing cocoa-skinned woman standing in the winter's chill, the poet reminding the nation and its leaders of the fragility of our planet, the wonder of life, the hope of humankind at William Jefferson Clinton's first inauguration as President of the United States. I want to use what has happened to me - is happening to me - to see what human beings are like.
Maya Angelou is fluent in six languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and West African Fanti.I hope to look through my life at life.Maya Angelou was the Northern Coordinator for THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, appointed at the request of Dr.Maya Angelou taught modern dance at THE ROME OPERA HOUSE and THE HAMBINA THEATRE in Tel Aviv.Maya Angelou received an Emmy Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as “Nyo Boto” (Grandmother) in Roots.Maya Angelou was a writer for the Oprah Winfrey series Brewster Place.Maya Angelou grew up in Stamps, Arkansas.However, many don’t realize that she’s also an actress, dancer, performer, and teacher. Everyone knows that Maya Angelou is an award-winning writer and one of the greatest poets to ever put pen to paper.Maya is a member of the Director’s Guild of America.In 1993, Maya Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the inauguration of President Clinton.She took the name Maya Angelou when she became a cabaret artist in her late twenties.Maya Angelou received a lifetime achievement award by the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, is a chronicle of Maya Angelou’s life up to age sixteen.In 1977, May Angelou appeared in the film Roots.1975-1976, Maya Angelou was appointed a member of American Revolution Bicentennial Council by President Gerald R.Martin Luther King’s assassination fell on Maya Angelou’s birthday in 1968 and left her devastated. The world would come to know her as Maya Angelou. Marguerite Johnson was born in 1928 in St.There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. – Maya AngelouĬhildren’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. – Maya AngelouĪt fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. – Maya AngelouĪny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou Quote from “Life Seems to Love the Liver of It”Īchievement brings its own anticlimax.
Through the years, I’ve found it wonderful to acquire, but it is also wonderful to divest. While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation. We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. The world would be a better place for it. I realize I get a little carried away sometimes with my passion for books and my favorite authors, but it’s my profound belief that Maya Angelou’s books, poetry, and stories should be required reading in our schools and homes.