19 of Maya Angelou's Most Powerful Quotes to Remember Her By
May 28, 2014 Best known for her poems and essays, Maya Angelou was a Rennaisance woman. She died on Wednesday at the age of 86. As a poet, author, playwright, director, performer, actress, professor, producer, singer and civil right’s activist, “I have created myself,” she told USA Today. “I have taught myself so much.” Many of us read her best known book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in school. Published in 1969, it lyrically recounted her years growing…