In the song Hey Mama from his hit 2005 album Late Registration, Kanye compares his mum to a book of poetry, referencing writers Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni. And in 2010, he wrote in a blog ...

Angelou died on 28 May 2014 ... epic autobiography that would eventually run to six volumes. The book begins when the young Maya is sent to live with her grandparents in Arkansas in the wake ...

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

Maya Angelou was linked with the saying in 2003, but the site found a version in a 1971 volume called "Richard Evans' Quote Book", ascribed to one Carl W. Buehner, a high-level official in the ...

Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Dr. Angelou had a diverse career, spanning from civil rights activist to poet. Many were introduced to Dr. Angelou in 1993, when she read her poem "On the ...

Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets ... The postcards found so far feature poems from feminist heroes such as Maya Angelou, Ann Drysdale and Jenny Joseph.