Maya++Angelou

=MAYA ANGELOU = By: Colleen, Jake, and Ambeka

Changes Created By Maya Angelou:
Not only did Maya Angelou entertain others, but she changed other people's view point on how black women were treated over the years by the use of her literature. Without her poetry and all of her scripts, people all over the world would not have realized the hardships that black women had to go through. Maya Angelou had opened the eyes of many people. Even today, Angelou's works still continue to astonish people. Through several scripts and hundreds of stanzas, Angelou expresses her true feelings about discrimination against black people. By the use of vivid descriptions and amazing figurative language, Maya Angelou shows her readers what the true art of language is. Something else that Maya Angelou has changed is the course of history. She worked very close with Malcolm X and even Martin Luther King Jr. as part of the civil rights movement. If it wasn't for all of these people, then there would still be segregation. These are the kind of people that will never be followers, but will always be leaders. These are the kind of people that know right from wrong. And these are the kind of people that change our history, people, and world.



Time Line:
1928- Born in St. Louis Missouri on April 4, as Marguerite Ann Johnson. Her brother nicknamed her Maya.

1940- Graduated from Lafayette Country Training School (Stamps, Arkansas) with Honors

1944- Graduated from Mission High School

1944- Age 17, gives birth to son, Clyde; she didn't marry his father

1952- Married a man named Tosh Angelos in (1952 marriage ended).

1957 - Appeared in an off-Broadway play (Calypso Heat Wave)

1961- Travels to London and Africa

1963 to 1966- Became assistant administrator of Music and Drama School (University of Ghana); employed by Ghanaian Broadcast Corp. and Ghanaian Times newspaper

1968- Writes and produces a ten-part PBS television series on African traditions in American life, Black, Blues, Black

1973- Marries Paul Du Feu; makes Broadway debut in Look Away; nominated for Tony Award for performance.

1980- Marriage to Paul Du Feu dissolved

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1983- Honored with Matrix Award given by Women in Communication, Inc.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1988- Appears on Bill Moyers's PBS program "The Face of Evil"

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1990-Receives Candace Award for the poem I Shall Not Be Moved

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1993- Presents "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Clinton's inauguration

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1995- David Frost interview; reads "A Brave and Startling Truth" at 50th Anniversary of United Nations; gives a reading at Million Man March, Washington, D.C.; Angelou costarred in the motion picture //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">How to Make an American Quilt. //

= Photostory =

Song: "Sleep Away" By: Bob Acri
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// Life Doesn't Frighten Me By: Maya Angelou // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Shadows on the wall <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Noises down the hall <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Bad dogs barking loud <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Big ghosts in a cloud <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Mean old Mother Goose <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Lions on the loose <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">They don't frighten me at all

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Dragons breathing flame <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">On my counterpane <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">That doesn't frighten me at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I go boo <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Make them shoo <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I make fun <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Way they run <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I won't cry <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">So they fly <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I just smile <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">They go wild

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Tough guys fight <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">All alone at night <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Panthers in the park <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Strangers in the dark <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">No, they don't frighten me at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">That new classroom where <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Boys all pull my hair <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">(Kissy little girls <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">With their hair in curls) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">They don't frighten me at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Don't show me frogs and snakes <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">And listen for my scream, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">If I'm afraid at all <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">It's only in my dreams.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I've got a magic charm <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">That I keep up my sleeve <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">I can walk the ocean floor <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">And never have to breathe.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Not at all <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Not at all. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Life doesn't frighten me at all.

= Maya Angelou's Works: =



**Poems**

 * //Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie// (1971)
 * //Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well// (1975)
 * //And Still I Rise// (1978)
 * //Poems: Maya Angelou// (1986)
 * //Now Sheba Sings the Song// (1987)
 * //I Shall Not Be Moved// (1990)
 * //On the Pulse of the Morning// (1993)
 * //The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou// (1994)
 * //A Brave and Startling Truth// (1995)

**Autobiographies**

 * //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// ( 1970)
 * //Gather Together in My Name// (1974)
 * //Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas// (1976)
 * //The Heart of a Woman// (1981)
 * //Why I Moved Back to the// //South// (1982)
 * //All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes// (1986)
 * //My Grandson, Home at Last// (1986)

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