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 thenAnd then the laughing would start again.'
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.
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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
