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Maya Angelo during her life, she was everything ''When a person can tell that, throughout his life, he was a poet, an actress, a singer, a dancer, a writer, a cook, a journalist, a tram conductor and even a prostitute… all that remains is to conclude that had a full life.'' She was someone very important, she was known as Dr. Angelou only for her influence on African American culture in the last few decades. She's a badass.

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Maya Angelo during her life, she was everything ''When a person can tell that, throughout his life, he was a poet, an actress, a singer, a dancer, a writer, a cook, a journalist, a tram conductor and even a prostitute… all that remains is to conclude that had a full life.'' She was someone very important, she was known as Dr. Angelou only for her influence on African American culture in the last few decades. She's a badass.

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Maya Angelou was a Hollywood's first female black director, a poetry, a singer, an actress and civil rights activist.

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Maya Angelou became the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco, California, in the 1940s.

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Maya Angelou became the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco, California, in the 1940s.

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Describing her work to George Plimpton, She said "Once I got into it I realized I was following a tradition established by Freferick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first person singular talking about the first-person plural, ALWAYS SAYING I MEANING 'WE'. And what a responsibility. Trying to work with that form, the autobiographical mode, to change it, to make it bigger, richer, finer, and more inclusive in the twentieth century has been a great challenge for me"

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Mom & Me & Mom (2013) is the seventh of Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies. It was completed 11 years after the publication of her previous autobiography

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Here's another book she wrote, called "Life doesn't frighten me".

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Maya Angelou's real name is: Marguerite Ann Johnson and she was a writer and poetess.

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One source of Angelou’s fame in the early 1990s was President Bill Clinton’s invitation to write and read an inaugural poem. Americans all across the country watched as she read “On the Pulse of Morning,” which begins “A Rock, a River, a Tree” and calls for peace, racial and religious harmony, and social justice for people of different origins, incomes, genders, and sexual orientations. It recalls the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech as it urges America to “Give birth again / To the Dream” of equality.

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Jocelyn A. Glazier, a professor at George Washington University, has trained teachers how to "talk about race" in their classrooms with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name. According to Glazier, Angelou's use of understatement, self-mockery, humor, and irony have left readers of Angelou's autobiographies unsure of what she left out and how they should respond to the events she described.

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She wrotte the book “ I know why the cages birds sings”

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She was the first Black woman to write a screenplay for a major film release

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She was the first Black woman to write a screenplay for a major film release

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In 1972 Angelou expanded her writing and musical talents by writing and scoring Georgia, Georgia, a Swedish-American drama that would later be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She would go on to write for television, theatre, and would eventually reach her goal of directing a film with Down in the Delta in 1998.

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Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman

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Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman

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In 1981, Maya Angelou was appointed Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
She was nominated for several important awards and read a poem written for the occasion at President Clinton’s inauguration.

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Her brother was unable to pronounce her name because of a stutter and used to call her "My" for "My sister" later, he read a book about the Maya Indians and began to call her Maya.

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Her brother was unable to pronounce her name because of a stutter and used to call her "My" for "My sister" later, he read a book about the Maya Indians and began to call her Maya.

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In 1957, Maya released her first and only music album: Miss Calypso.

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In the book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969) Angelou captures her childhood struggles with abuse and prejudice while also detailing how the contrasting freedom of her adolescence allowed her to find strength amidst despair. The autobiography is arguably her most popular work.