Maya+Angelou

=Maya Angelou= = "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." =



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**Basic Information**

 * Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri
 * Was a victim of racial discrimination
 * As a teenager, Maya got a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School
 * At age 14, she dropped out to become a cable car conductor
 * She finished high school and gave birth to her son, Guy
 * In 1954 and 1955, Dr. Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera //Porgy and Bess//
 * In 1957, Maya recorded her first album, //Calypso Lady//
 * In 1958, she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild
 * She acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's //The Blacks// and wrote and performed //Cabaret for Freedom//
 * In 1960, Maya moved to Cairo, Egypt where she served as editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer, worked as feature editor for //The African Reviewand// wrote for //The Ghanaian Times.//
 * The next year, she moved to Ghana where she taught at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama
 * Studied French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti
 * She met with Malcolm X and, in 1964, returned to America to help him build his new Organization of African American Unity.
 * After X's assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked Maya to serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
 * Maya published //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// in 1970. It was a best seller.
 * Wrote the screenplay //Georgia, Georgia//in 1972. Her script, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
 * Appears on television and in films including the landmark television adaptation of //Roots,//in 1977 and Poetic Justice, in 1993
 * In 1996, she directed her first feature film, //Down in the Delta//
 * Maya has served on two presidential committees, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000, the Lincoln Medal in 2008, and has received 3 Grammy Awards.
 * President Clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. Maya's reading of her poem //On the Pulse of Morning// was broadcast live around the world
 * Maya has received over 30 honorary degrees and is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

**Alone**
Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires With money they can't use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody No, nobody Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

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