“I thought, my voice killed him I killed that man, because I told his name.”Īngelou didn’t speak a single word between the ages of eight and 13. On what would have been the luminary’s 90th birthday, here is Maya Angelou in her own words. In 2010, then-President Barack Obama awarded her the Medal of Freedom to which he stated: “(Maya Angelou) touched me, she touched all of you, she touched people all across the globe, including a young white woman from Kansas who named her daughter after Maya and raised her son to be the first black president of the United States.” ![]() On January 20, 1993, she became the first woman and the first black woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration, reading her “On The Pulse Of Morning” poem at Bill Clinton’s inauguration. In the 1950s, she was a San Francisco famed Calypso dancer and singer in the 1960s, she rose to become a writer and core part of the Civil Rights Movement alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, and in the 1970s, she was famed for writing poetry that addressed issues of racial and gender inequality. Having spread her talents across dancing, singing, literature, and poetry, it’s no wonder her impact is still felt so strongly four years on from her death. ![]() As we continue her fight for equality, her endless poems and autobiographies serve as pillars for how to progress the world’s social and political reality. Writer and activist Maya Angelou’s voice was so powerful, it still rings loudly across the globe.
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