Maya Angelou: poet, singer, dancer, painter, Grammy winner — and now, hip-hop artist. The new album Caged Bird Songs takes its title from Angelou's 1969 book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. One of ...
Her most famous work took its title from “Sympathy,” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. And it seems fitting, after Maya Angelou’s death last week at the age of 86, to recall some of what the poet said: ...