I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Still I Rise: Best Life Advice We Can Get From Maya Angelou

Source: Jemal Countess / Getty Happy Birthday to the late, great mother of wisdom, Ms. Maya Angelou. The writer, poet and singer would have been 97 years old today, and thankfully she left behind such brilliant works for us to still feed on today. Read the great laureate’s best advice inside.  “Thank God for you maya Angelou for all the positive things you have done for the communities and this country you were a strong woman and a good example …

“You can’t exhaust creativity. The more you use it, the more you have,” Maya Angelou once said. And she may be setting an example to herself. Angelou was a writer, poet, singer, actress, dancer, journalist, and civil rights activist for African Americans.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings introduces an impressive woman. Though Maya Angelou – poet, actress, singer, dancer, journalist and black activist – does not describe her adult activities in this first instalment of her four-part autobiography, her varied talents shine in the vivacity with which she evokes her childhood. This was largely spent in Stamps, Arkansas, a rural, black community that she remembers as pivoting around church, revival mee…