Few poets ever rise to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Maya Angelou. But of course, she was much more than a poet — essayist, memoirist, and civil rights activist. And not a bad singer, as you’ll hear in a few minutes.
She worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
In 1993, Angelou recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton. I met her a few months later.
Here now, from October 1993, Maya Angelou.
In 2013, Maya Angelou published the seventh volume of her autobiography.
She died in 2014, at age 86.