A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns...

We Had Him by Maya Angelou

Angelou is perhaps best known for her series of seven autobiographies that focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings...

Woman Work by Maya Angelou

Angelou is perhaps best known for her series of seven autobiographies that focus on her childhood and early adult experiences...

Song of the Old Ones by Maya Angelou

Poet: Maya Angelou Born: 4 April 1928, Missouri, USA American Died: 28 May 2014, North Carolina, USA

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his …

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like …