Maya Angelou — Photos

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April 4, 2018 8:22AM EDT

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou, a 6 foot multi-talented ex-Arkansan, has been hired as Hollywood’s first black woman movie director, . She’ll write the script and music, as well as direct “Caged Bird,” which is based on her best-selling 1969 autobiography. She’s been a professional singer, dancer, writer, composer, poet, lecturer, editor, and San Francisco streetcar conductorette
MAYA ANGELOU, HOLLYWOOD, USA

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Maya Angelou — MAYA ANGELOU A 1992 photo of poet Maya Angelou
MAYA ANGELOU, USA

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Maya Angelou — MAYA ANGELOU Maya Angelou, poet in residence at Wake Forest University, talks about the poem she wrote for President Clinton’s inauguration from her office in Winston-Salem, N.C., . Angelou will narrate the poem to music Saturday at the school
MAYA ANGELOU, WINSTON-SALEM, USA

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Maya Angelou — Black American Author and Poet Maya Angelou Photographed in September 30 1999 Unknown Unknown
Maya Angelou – 30 Sep 1999

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Maya Angelou — ANGELOU Author Maya Angelou listens to a question during an interview in her New York apartment . Angelou, the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Gather Together in My Name,” has teamed with Hallmark to develop a line of greeting cards and gifts that distill her writings
MAYA ANGELOU HALLMARK, NEW YORK, USA

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Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou
THE HAY FESTIVAL – 2002

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Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou Poet and activist Maya Angelou, speaks on stage during the Democratic National Convention, in Boston. Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, has died, Wake Forest University said in a statement Wednesday, May 28, 2014. She was 86
Obit Maya Angelou, Boston, USA

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Maya Angelou — MAYA ANGELOU
MAYA ANGELOU IN LONDON, BRITAIN – 2002

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Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou On, poet and author Maya Angelou speaks during an interview in Santa Monica, Calif. Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, died Wednesday morning, May 28, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86
Obit Maya Angelou, Santa Monica, USA

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Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou Author Maya Angelou takes part in a campaign event with Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., not pictured, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C
Maya Angelou, Winston-Salem, USA

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