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Artists · 1928–2014

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou lived enough lives for a small town — dancer, singer, San Francisco streetcar conductor, journalist in Egypt and Ghana, Civil Rights organizer for Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and finally the poet laureate of American memoir. Her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings broke open Black women's storytelling. She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”

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