Maya Angelou talks to writer Pamela Johnson about how to throw a lifelong party ... when she was about 70 or 80, phoned me one day and said, “You better talk to your father. I’m going to ...

Dr. Maya Angelou was a dancer, a singer, a model, a social activist and also, a teenage mother. She lived an expansive life, traversed the globe and influenced everyone from presidents and ...

She was 86.Watch video report | Photos ... "You're going to be famous. But it won't be for singing." After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage ("Maya" was a childhood nickname ...

A few years after that meeting, Stephanie, one of my best friends, mentioned a possible date with a young man she had met at work. I encouraged her to go ... photos I’ve taken through the years. It ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Poet Maya Angelou celebrated ... And we are going to work together to make it better. Or we will not. And we will make it worse. And that’s dumb.” She declined say ...

Director Lee Daniels attended Angelou's 82nd birthday party at the poet's home in Winston-Salem, N.C., on May 20, 2010. Musician Common also attended Angelou's party at her home. Naomi Judd ...

Before Maya Angelou ... idea." Angelou joked that she could only start after her birthday, because "I have to give a party to explain to these hard-nosed New Yorkers why I’m going back to ...

Dr. Maya Angelou was best known as a poet, author and civil rights activist. But—as Bob Hercules, one of the directors of the upcoming The Maya Angelou Documentary, fondly puts it—”she led ...

(Yes, Oprah has them). She quoted her mentor, poet Maya Angelou. She actually said the words “hashtag goals” when referring to her exhibit. And she went back, like way back. “You know my ...

The author had heart problems, but was finishing a new book. May 28, 2014 -- Famed poet and author Maya Angelou died this morning in North Carolina. She was 86. "She'd been very frail and had ...

"She will always be the rainbow in my clouds," Winfrey wrote. May 28, 2014 -- Maya Angelou had a profound effect on many celebrities, but perhaps no one more than Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey remembered ...