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Maya Angelou
A community portal about Maya Angelou with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Maya Angelou is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Over the weekend, the gossip site TMZ erroneously reported that Maya Angelou had been sent to the hospital, spawning an avalanche of Twitter posts.
Since then, TMZ has retracted the report, noting that the poet is "alive and well in St. Louis." The site blames event organizers for telling a photographer that the poet had been hospitalized. This is Angelou's second bad experience with Twitter this year--in February she exposed a fake Angelou...
- Maya Angelou Alive and Well - Naomi Watts is Sexy and Bankable (nationalledger.com)
- Maya Angelou Not In Hospital And Is Fine (woofactor.com)
- Maya Angelou rushed to hospital (feedburner.com)
In interviews conducted shortly after President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration Maya Angelou described an honest and perhaps worrisome writing process. In order to write an important poem on demand she checked into a hotel room free of a television and her home’s distractions with a bottle of booze, a pen, and some paper. Apparently she does this often for inspiration and to avoid writer’s block. I am the very poor man’s...
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- Life's too short (guardian.co.uk)
- Angelou, Temptations Review to highlight A&T homecoming (news-record.com)
- Council Honors Height and Angelou (voices.washingtonpost.com)
‘I plan to keep working as long as I can.’
BY GARY YOUNGE
The London Guardian
During a trip to Senegal, Maya Angelou called Samia, a friend she had made in Paris several years before, and was invited over for dinner. Passing a room where people apparently clung to the wall to avoid standing on the rug, Angelou [...]
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She's 81 and growing frail, but revered author and poet Maya Angelou has lost none of her legendary wisdom and humour. In a rare interview, she explains why she's not about to retireDuring a trip to Senegal, Maya Angelou called Samia, a friend she had made in Paris several years before, and was invited over for dinner. Passing a room where people apparently clung to the wall to avoid standing on the rug, Angelou became incensed. "I had known...
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- Maya Angelou dead? Not really (feedburner.com)
- Tickets sold out to hear poet Maya Angelou (news-journal.com)
Even for a venue as grand as New York’s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were presenters; so were Katie Couric and former President Bill Clinton.
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- Maya Angelou, Rihanna among Glamour mags honorees (mynorthwest.com)
- Angelou, Rihanna among Glamour mag honorees (post-trib.com)
- NTCC to host famed author Maya Angelou (dailytribune.net)
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