Vale Maya Angelou: 28 May 2014

Maya Angelou


 Photograph: Jane Bown

4 April 1928 - 28  May 2014
Family Tribute
 Obituary 

 Alice Walker's tribute:
'She was special, she was rare, she was more beautiful than perhaps even she realised, because she was, among other things, such an artist, that she could not only create worlds on paper, or in a listener's imagination, but she also managed, over and over again in her long life, to create and recreate herself.'

Lennie Goodings

Gary Younge heartfelt recollection of interview with Maya in 2002

'When I asked her how she dealt with people's response to old age, she recited the final verse of her poem, On Aging:

I'm the same person I was back then
A little less hair, a little less chin,
A lot less lungs and much less wind.
But ain't I lucky I can still breathe in.

And then the laughing would start again.'
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'She described the 9/11 attacks as a “hate crime”, and said: “Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.” '
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Cook Book

Maya Angelou speaks: And Still I Rise

British Landscape

Link to Constable at the NGA in 2006

Review of Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape at the RA in 2012-13 by Mark Prodger in the Guardian