My address is 220 Center Street.” All facts, which have little to do with the child’s truth. Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize, “My name is Johnny Thomas. Throughout the years I have lived in Paris, Cairo, West Africa, and all over the United States. Louis, Missouri, but from the age of three I grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, with my paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, and my father’s brother, Uncle Willie, and my only sibling, my brother, Bailey.Īt thirteen I joined my mother in San Francisco. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. She wrote three collections of essays many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela and two cookbooks. This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - and memoirist. Dr Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists.
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