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.
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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.