Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in unintegrated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, writer, actress, dramatist, civil-rights militant, and manager. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and legion magazine articles gaining her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the petition of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a verse form at his 1993 presidential startup. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been seeking to do something particular in the poesy, history and in the movie industry of the Africa-American adult females.
Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her calling in play and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their female parent, who had remarried. She gave birth to her boy Clyde Johnson, merely a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former crewman of Grecian descent, but she left her matrimony two and half old ages subsequently and put out to go a professional terpsichorean. Maya Angelou spent her formative old ages shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab perceiver, an English-language hebdomadal published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black patriot government of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance, and.
studied filming in Sweden. In the 1960 , at the petition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of International adult females Year.
Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American adult female to hit the best seller lists with her I know Why the Caged bird Sings helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with narratives of her ain childhood. Maya Angelou 2nd accomplishment was in 1971 when she produced Just Give Me a Cool Drink of H2O Fore I Die , in 1975 Oh Pray My Wingss Are Traveling to Fit Me Well, in 1979 And I Still Rise, and in 1983 Shaker Why Don You Sing. She ranged from narrative to poem to song and back once more, and her subject was love and the catholicity of all lives. The honorary responsibility of a human being is to love, Angelou said. Sh
e radius of her early love for William Shakespeare’s works, and offered her audience extracts from the verse forms of several African americans, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. But ever, she came back to love -and humanity. “I am human, ” Angelou said, citing from her ain work, “and nil human can be foreign to me.”
In the 1960ss, at the petition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , she became the Northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in 1975, she received the Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year award in communications. She received legion honorary grades and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the Sergejs Golubevs National Commission on the Observance of International Woman Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is one the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director Guild.
In the movie industry, through her work in book authorship and directing, Maya Angelou has been a pioneer for black adult female.in telecasting ; she has made 100s of visual aspects. Her best-selling autobiographical history of her young person, I Know Why the Cage Bird sings, won critical acclamation in 1970and was a two-hour Television special on CBS. She has written and produced several awards winning docudramas, including Afro-Americans in the Arts, a PBS special for which she received the Golden bird of Jove Award. She was besides nominated for an Emmy Award for her playing in Roots, and her screenplay Georgia, Georgia was the first by a black adult female to be filmed.
In theater, she produced, directed and starred in Cabaret for Freedom In coaction with godfrey Cambridge at New York Village Gate ; starred in Genet The Blacks: at St Mark Playhouse ; and adapted Sophocles Ajax which premiered in Los Angeles in 1974. She wrote the original screenplay for Georgia, Georgia and wrote and produced a 10 portion Television series on African traditions in American life. Maya Angelou is presently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston -Salem, North Carolina. Whole her life Maya Angelou has been seeking to do something particular in the poesy, history, and in the movie industry of the Africa-American adult females. Maya Angelou made a batch for American civilisation, and each Americans truly looks up on Maya Angelou life, and on all that things that she has done.
