Maya Angelou

Life

• Born April 4,1928 in St. Louis, Missouri
• During world 2 she left to San Francisco where she won a scholar ship to attend the California labor school.
• Maya later went to Ghana where she worked as a free lance writer she also held a position at the university of Gahana

Life Continued

• Maya Angelou was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. who was killed on her birth day
• Maya Angelou was also a good friend of oprah winfrey

Professional

• During her life she was a poet, historian, playwright, and dancer
• In 1959 she became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• Maya Angelou recited her poem at president Bill Clinton's Presidential Inaugural

Themes

• racism
• Identity
• Family
• Travel

Accomplishments

• Participated in the civil right struggles in the 1950s and 1960s
• Famous for writing her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
• One of Maya's most famous poem is "Touched by an angel"

Touched by an angel

• We,unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Touched by an angel

• Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Touched by an angel

• We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Touched by an angel explained

• Maya Angelou's poem "Touched By An Angel" is a poem mostly about love

Works Cited

• Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

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