From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... then to a South African freedom fighter) and spoke ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer ... He admired her too, awarding Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. When Angelou died, Obama described her as an inspiration ...