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As a teenager, Dr. Angelous love for the arts won her a scholarship to
study dance and drama at San Franciscos Labor School. At 14, she
dropped out to become San Franciscos first African-American female
cable car conductor.
As a young single mother, she supported her son by working as
a waitress and cook.
In later years she would embrace popular culture working with
rappers, poets, musicians and filmmakers. Writing about her
experience with eloquence and detail, Maya Angelou recorded history
through poetry, biographies, journalism, childrens books, cook books
and essays painting a picture of the American landscape for
generations to come.
In 1950 Maya Angelou joined the Harlem Writers Guild and she
began work on the book that would become I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings. Published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings received international acclaim made the bestseller list. The
book was also banned in many schools during that time as Maya
Angelous honesty about having been sexually abused opened a
subject matter that had long been taboo in the culture. Later, I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings would become a course adoption at college
campuses around the world. With more than 30 bestselling titles,
Maya Angelou has written 36 books.
In 1958, she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem
Writers Guild, acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean
Genets The Blacks and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom.
Maya Angelou also would sing calypso, dance in night and
supper clubs and eventually become known for her ability to write
lyrics and perform spoken word. And she worked with many different
famous singers. Maya Angelou has won three Grammys: Best Spoken
Word Album, Best Spoken Word or Non Musical Album 1993 for On the
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first
time.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the
changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without
courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.