Quotes by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou worked as a streetcar conductor, dancer, journalist in Ghana and coordinator for Martin Luther King Jr. before publishing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969 — an account of a childhood in the segregated South, including the rape she survived at seven and the years of silence that followed. She wrote six more autobiographies and read at Bill Clinton's inauguration. She is among the most quoted American writers, particularly on dignity and on how people make you feel.