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[edit] Greek?
Her surname seems Greek to me. is she married to a Greek man? No was she married to a Greek man. Actually, her first husband WAS a Greek man named Tosh Angelos. Optim 22:06, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Poet Laureate
Angelou is often referred to as being a U.S. Poet Laureate. I was going to add this to the article, but I can't find any citations, and she isn't on the Library of Congress list. Shoehorn 22:29, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
- Believe it or not, whether she is referred to this way or not, I think most people would be surprised to find she has never been a Poet Laureate of the U. S. An act of congress changed the title to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. At that article, you can find the entire list, but unfortunately Maya Angelou has yet to receive the honor.--65.16.61.35 21:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A quote to live by
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
--Maya Angelou, poet, actress, civil rights activist
[edit] text dump from Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, with the name Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis Missouri. She got the name Maya from her brother, Bailey. He called her Mya sister, my, and then Maya. Since her brother was her favorite person, she kept the name. She and Bailey moved to Arkansas with their grandmother when Maya was three and Bailey was four. They experienced hatred from white people in the Segrated South. They spent a lot of time in Church to escape from the hate and segregation. In the first few years of living with their grandma, Maya thought that her parents were dead. Maya soon found out differently when their parents sent them Christmas presents from California. Maya soon began to wonder why their parents had sent them to Stamps, Arkansas. When Maya was seven, her father came to Stamps to take the children back to California. To Maya and Bailey's surprise, their father was actually taking them to Missouri, where their mother now lived. Their father left them in Missouri and returned to California alone. Maya and her brother, Bailey, made ice cream by puring milk and sugar on snow. Maya was raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Mr. Freeman, while living with her mother. "What he did to me, and what I alllowed, must have been bad if already God let me hurt so much." So In 1936, Maya was traumatized by the sexual assault when she was only eight years old. She refused to speak to anyone but Bailey. Maya was sent back to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas with Bailey. In 1939, Maya Angelou began talking after nearly four years of silence. Maya moved to San Francisco with Bailey to live with their mother and started high school there.
[edit] Roots
If she won an Emmy for Roots, why doesn't the article on Roots mention her? JMcC 11:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I agree. An Emmy nomination is not listed at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029723/awards or http://emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php. --67.78.27.162 22:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey Itatagi Lush and the Nanch were here! This is a cool website. It really helped when I was doing a report on Maya Angelou.
"Maya Angelou, Extraordinary Human Being," Internet Exploerer, October 27, 2005.http://littlerock.about.com/cs/musicbooks/a/maya angelou.htm
Kallen, Stuart. Maya Angelou, I have a Dream. Minneapolis Minnesota: Abdo Consulting Group Inc., 1993.
Maya Angelou. 1997. Gale. Access Date: October 28, 2005. www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/angelou_m.htm
"Maya Angelou," Internet Explorer, October 27, 2005. www.mayaangelou.com
Shapiro, Miles. Maya Angelou. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.
Lisandrelli, Elaine. Maya Angelou: More than a Poet. Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers Inc., 1996.
[edit] Consistant Life
Maya Angelou is a member of this pro-life group which is against abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia. Dwain
I really enjoy reading Maya Angelou's poem and she is insprirational (Sierra B.)
[edit] "La Vie Boheme" - Rent
She is mentioned in the song "La Vie Boheme" from the Rock-Opera Rent.
Characters Mimi and Angel sing:
To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou
[edit] Maya Angelou is not dead
Why does it say she died in 2002? According to all the sources I checked--including her own website--she is definitely alive. She's in Medea's Family Reunion which is due to be released in 2006. And how could she have given a commencement address in 2005?
[edit] The title's On the Pulse of Morning
Not The Rock Speaks Out. Maya angelou lived in Stamps when she lived with whom she called "momma" right?
