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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) is Maya Angelou's first book of essays, published shortly after she recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton, [3] making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration. [4]
Stars, together with her first book of essays Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993), is one of the volumes writer Hilton Als called Angelou's "wisdom books" and "homilies strung together with autobiographical texts", [1] published during the long period between her fifth and sixth autobiographies, All God's Children Need Traveling ...
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.” Maya Angelou quotes about love
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Critic Richard Long called two of the previously published poems, "On the Pulse of Morning" and "A Brave and Startling Truth", Angelou's "public" poems. [1] She read "On the Pulse of Morning", her most famous poem, at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993. [ 2 ]
Many of these quotes come from historical changemakers, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, and great writers and philosophers, such as Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou is author and poet Maya Angelou's collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1994. It is Angelou's first collection of poetry published after she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. It contains her previous five books of poetry, published ...