Monday, February 14, 2011

Maya Angelou


Hi, my name is Maya Angelou. I was born in Missouri, St. Louis. When I was fourteen years old I became the first African-American female to be a cable car conductor in San Fransisco. When I finished high school I gave birth to a boy, and I named him Guy. I was young and a single mother I had to work as a waitress and a cook. I loved poetry, music, dancing, and performance. Aorund 1954-55 I went to Europe with the production of Porgy and Bess. I ended up studying dance with Martha Graham. Alvin Ailey and I danced on television. I made recorded my own album in 1957 called Calypso Lady. I moved to New York around 1958, there I entered the Harlem Writers Guild. Then I moved to Egypt Cairo, around 1960. While I was in Egypt I was the editor of the English language weekly, The Arab Observer. Soon I moved to Ghana. In Ghana I taught at the Universityy of Ghana's School of Music and Drama. There I worked as one of the editors for The African Review, and I also wrote for The Ghanaian Times. Later on, I was a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked me to help him. I was devasted when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr died on my birthday in 1968. I hada friend named James Baldwin. Because of him, I worked on a book that became, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was publishe in 1970. I composed and wrote the flim Georgia, Georgia. I stille appear in films, and on television. Later, I served on two presidential commitees. I got the Presidential Medal of Arts in the year 2000.
Then I got the Lincoln Medal in 2008. I have also recieved three Grammy Awards. Clinton requested that I should make him a poem for his Inaguration in 1993. The poem I did was called, On the Pulse of the Morning. It was all over the world, and it was live. I have recieved thirty honorary degrees.Well, that is all I ave to say today, so rmeber to follow your drems.

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