From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... dancer, sex worker – she became a celebrated ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya ... a seminal work, offering a searingly honest account of her childhood and adolescence. With lyrical prose and unflinching candor, Angelou ...