Writer's block doesn't discriminate. From fresh-faced novelists to literary legends, this creative paralysis has taken down ...

Maya wrote unashamedly about her troubled past 2. She was the first black woman to work as a ... reading Russian literature every day until they changed their minds. Angelou recalled doing this ...

fellow inaugural poet Maya Angelou, and America’s first president, George Washington. The poet told US radio station NPR she deeply researched her work by reading American literature and ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer ... But more than that, Maya’s life, work and wisdom inspired some of today’s most famous names to achieve great things too.

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ... of honorary degrees and wrote over 30 bestselling works. In 2010, she was given a Presidential Medal ...

But student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by Maya Angelou in a bid to reverse ... professor emeritus of 20th Century literature at Kent University and author of a 2007 ...

Variations of this quote, the words of the late writer and activist Maya Angelou ... it would be a worthy endeavor to reflect on Angelou’s work and words this Thanksgiving.