Angelou, Maya

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century African-American writer, whose best-known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiographical account of growing up as a black girl in the rural South. Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural ceremony.

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Example Sentences

“We should rename Washington High School after San Francisco native, poet and author Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou High School. No schools named after slave owners,” Haney wrote on his Twitter account Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times

Bush added in a reference to the poet Maya Angelou, "Maya, you have nothing to worry about."

From Time Magazine Archive