Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted ... choose how we treat ourselves and others. Beyond her famous quote, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

in her writing, she shared both her highest and lowest moments. Here are 10 of the most surprising things we’ve learned about Maya Angelou. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St Louis, Missouri ...

“When it looked like the sun wasn’t gonna shine anymore, you became the rainbow in my clouds,” Maya Angelou ... After the rape, Angelou was mute until she was 13. Her four years of silence were the ...

Kennedy's oath-taking in 1961, the modern trend began with Maya ... Properly viewed, Angelou must be understood as a pivotal figure of the anti-rape movement. Through her writing, Angelou ...