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MAYA ANGELOUThe Woman behind the Words
By Suzette Ragland
The Early Year
Marqurite Annie Johnson later became Maya
Angelou. Angelou’s mother and father divorced when
she was three and her and her brother went to
live with their grandmother. Later she
was rape and because of her not speaking she
was teased by the other kids and one teacher
took her and work with her and Mrs. Flower was
a inspirer for her she begin to speak and write
poems.
A RENAISSANCE WOMAN
Calypso Lady in 1957 Georgia, Georgia Look Away First Poet used at an inauguration
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not Complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.” Maya Angelou
American Poet, Writer, Performer,
Teacher, Director, and Civil Rights activist.
1993 Presents “On the Pulse of the Moring” at President Clinton’s inauguration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtw62Ah2zY
“I say,” “Phenomenal woman,” and “That’s me.”
Maya Angelou
Knowledge is a very powerful tool, live love and enjoy life
Maya Angelo a woman with a dream
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