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Poet and memoirist · 1928–2014 · Art & Literature
Wrote seven autobiographies starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and read at a presidential inauguration in 1993.
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Marguerite Johnson was raped at seven by her mother's boyfriend; after he was killed she stopped speaking for years and read her way through the library of Stamps, Arkansas. She became San Francisco's first Black female streetcar conductor at sixteen, then a dancer, calypso singer and actor. In Ghana in the early sixties she worked as a journalist and knew Malcolm X; back in the United States she organised for Martin Luther King Jr. James Baldwin goaded her into writing the memoir that became I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969. She wrote six more volumes, plays and screenplays, taught at Wake Forest for three decades, and delivered On the Pulse of Morning for Bill Clinton.
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You can put that to the Maya Angelou persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Maya Angelou’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1928–2014, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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