Maya Angelou was linked with the saying in 2003, but the site found a version in a 1971 volume called "Richard Evans' Quote Book", ascribed to one Carl W. Buehner, a high-level official in the ...

In this sensitively rendered biography of Maya Angelou ... some books and invites her to read them aloud, an act that offers Angelou “the key to unlock her voice, now finally free to rise ...

Angelou died on 28 May 2014 ... epic autobiography that would eventually run to six volumes. The book begins when the young Maya is sent to live with her grandparents in Arkansas in the wake ...

“I was 15, I was 15 years old when I read my first diverse book, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and the whole world fell away from me.” Related: Oprah Calls Salary for Original ...