She and her son Guy moved to Cairo with Make where Angelou worked as an associate editor at the weekly English-language newspaper The Arab Observer.

For several years before writing Caged Bird, Angelou worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s to combat racism.

Norman premiered the song cycle woman. life. song by composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estés ; performed a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington ; recorded a jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand ; and was the soprano co-lead in Vangelis ' project Mythodea. Norman commended herself in Mussorgsky's songs, which she performed in Moscow in the original Russian.

Angelou has described William Shakespeare as a strong influence on her life and works, especially his identification with marginalized people, writing " Shakespeare was a black woman ".

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 28 %; float: left ; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;"> Into the Music: " The album's last four songs, " Angelou ", " And the Healing Has Begun ", and " It's All in the Game / You Know What They're Writing About " are a veritable tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal from " Angelou's climactic shouts to the sexually-charged, half-mumbled monologue in " And the Healing Has Begun " to the barely audible whisper that is the album's final sound.

#" Like a King / I'll Rise " ( Ben Harper / Maya Angelou, Ben Harper )

As a young servant, Anna ( María Celedonio / Maya Angelou ) starts an affair with her boss's son, Beck ( Jared Leto ), who's visiting from Chicago.

Latifah was asked by Maya Angelou, who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for Michael Jackson in July 2009.

Maya Angelou called Baldwin her " friend and brother ", and credited him for " setting the stage " for her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

** Charles B. Potter ( producer ) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven

An affiliated project for which Zevon both played and wrote liner notes is the offbeat 1998 album Stranger Than Fiction, a two CD set attributed to the Wrockers containing rock covers and originals by many of the Remainders authors plus such notables as Norman Mailer and Maya Angelou.

** Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning

** Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman

Angelou is best known for her series of autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences.

Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, but she is also an established poet, although her poems have received mixed reviews.

Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she has stated, " I thought, my voice killed him ; I killed that man, because I told his name.

And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone ..." According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her.

Angelou remained in Accra for his recovery and ended up staying there until 1965.

", a ten-part series of documentaries which dealt with the connection between blues music and Black Americans ' African heritage, as well as what Angelou called the " Africanisms still current in the U. S ." for National Educational Television, the precursor of PBS.

Maya Angelou speaking at a rally for Barack Obama, 2008

Angelou campaigned for Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential primaries.

In late 2010, Angelou donated her personal papers and career memorabilia to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

** Charles B. Potter ( producer ) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven

** Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman

** Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning

Maya, the younger version of Angelou and the book's central character, has been called " a symbolic character for every black girl growing up in America ".

The caged bird, a symbol for the chained slave, is an image Angelou uses throughout all her writings.

Before writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou had a long and varied career, holding jobs such as fry cook, dancer, actress, poet, educator, and even brothel madam.

For example, while Angelou was composing her second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, she was concerned about how her readers would react to her disclosure that she had been a prostitute.

Asante, Jr. and narrated by Maya Angelou.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

In 2009, Maya Angelou narrated the award-winning documentary The Black Candle, the first film about Kwanzaa.

Due to his cognomen Afer, Terence has long been identified with Africa and heralded as the first poet of the African diaspora by generations of writers, including Juan Latino, Phyllis Wheatley, Alexandre Dumas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.

According to Maya Angelou: Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

The album featured the song " Phenomenal Woman " based on the poem by Maya Angelou that featured guest vocals from Diahann Carroll, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Delta Goodrem, Amy Holland, Patti LaBelle and Mindy Smith – all survivors of or affected by cancer.

In March 2008 Maya Angelou stated that she planned to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Church.

Stamps was the childhood home of author Maya Angelou, and was depicted in her book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet ( with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party ), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou.

* December 30-The memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it " portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people ".

And, also in New York, she played Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in a two-character play by Jerome Kilty called Look Away.

Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson ; April 4, 1928 ) is an American author and poet.

In 1993, Angelou recited her poem " On the Pulse of Morning " at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.