Below, you'll find some of Maya Angelou's best quotes about life, love, selfhood and motivation. “Try to be a rainbow in ...

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 ... the first black woman in history to do so.

Maya Angelou sadly ... plea for unity in the black community during the turbulent 1980s. Those performing in the video wouldn’t have been born when Angelou penned the words but their power ...

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 ...

Maya wrote unashamedly about her troubled past 2. She was the first black woman to work as a conductor on San Francisco’s cable cars At 16, Angelou decided she wanted to be a cable car conductor ...

Maya Angelou reads ... her life story into a book. Angelou later told an interviewer that she initially planned to write ...