An Author Study on

Maya Angelou

by Sue Leavitt

What a good role model Maya Angelou is for all women, regardless of what color. She is someone who has suffered oppression. She has many reasons to feel sorry for herself, make excuses, and become an angry and bitter person. Instead she has been able transcend the many obstacles in her life and become an example for all. She has not let the ignorance she has faced in her lifetime affect the quality of the person she is. She is truly a modern day hero.

http://www.mayaangelou.com/LongBio.html

Maya Angelou’s Official Web Site the Biographical Information page
This page contains lists on the following: Publications – Autobiographies, Personal Essays, Children’s Books, Poetry, Plays, Screenplays, List of Acting - Television Appearances, Films & Plays, Radio, Recordings – Scores and Spoken Word Albums, Contributor to Periodicals, Other Accomplishments, Languages, Affiliations, Honors and Awards

http://aalbc.com/authors/maya.htm

African American Literature Book Club – The #1 Site for “Readers of Black Literature”
A Complete Author Profile

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/angelou_maya.html

VG: Voices from the Gaps
Women Artists and Writers of Color, An International Website
VG/Voices from the Gaps is a web-based trans-national academic community including students, teachers, artists, and scholars. VG provides resources about artists and writers. VG forges a collective effort of scholars who digitally interact with each other. VG contains biographical and critical analysis, pedagogical information, and histories of translation. VG archives recorded sound, film, and image collections, interviews, and online conversations with web logs (blogs).

http://www.newsun.com/angelou.html

The New Sun Newspaper, An Interview with Maya Angelou by David Frost

http://www.inspirationpeak.com/poetry/bravetruth.html

E- Text Website, "A Brave and Startling Truth"

E-text of poem in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations; from Inspiration Peak

http://www.melanet.com/watoto/pledge.html

"The Black Family Pledge"

E-text of the Kwanzaa poem; from Watoto World

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw219.html

"Sympathy"

By Paul Lawrence Dunbar; from Poem of the Week

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87

This is the website of The Academy of American Poets founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Maya_Angelou/

Quotations Page is the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. They have over 25,200 quotations online from over 3,000 authors, and more are added daily.