From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... a single mother at 17. She married twice (first ...

we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have celebrated her 90th birthday on 4 April 2018. She died in May 2014 after ...

Turning 75 this month, Maya ... is Angelou’s son, Guy Johnson, 57, author of Echoes of a Distant Summer and one other novel. He is, she says, her “monument in the world.” You’ve said ...

"She was a phenomenal woman whose comfort in her own skin made so many of us feel seen in ours," Michelle Obama said of the late poet Michelle Obama is celebrating Maya Angelou after the late poet ...

Maya Angelou ... as she got older, and when Angelou became unexpectely pregnant at 16 she was very supportive. Angelou remembered, “She asked me, ‘Do you love the boy?’ I said no. ‘Does ...

Even before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou ... course,” she said. “Now because of this process, the ideals and the principles and the values that Dr. Angelou stood ...