Who is Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is an American poet, memoirist, actress.
In November 2010, President Barack Obama announced that Angelou would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with President George H.W. Bush, businessman Warren Buffett, and civil rights activist John Lewis.
Maya Angelou's autobiographies have been used in narrative and multicultural approaches in teacher education. Jocelyn A. Glazier, a professor at George Washington University, has used I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name to train teachers how to "talk about race" in their classrooms.
Due to Maya Angelou's use of understatement, self-mockery, humor, and irony, readers of Angelou's autobiographies wonder what she "left out" and are unsure about how to respond to the events Angelou describes.Maya Angelou's depictions of her experiences of racism force white readers to explore their feelings about race and their own "privileged status". Glazier found that although critics have focused on where Maya Angelou fits within the genre of African-American autobiography and on her literary techniques, readers react to her storytelling with "surprise, particularly when [they] enter the text with certain expectations about the genre of autobiography"
In November 2010, President Barack Obama announced that Angelou would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with President George H.W. Bush, businessman Warren Buffett, and civil rights activist John Lewis.
Maya Angelou's autobiographies have been used in narrative and multicultural approaches in teacher education. Jocelyn A. Glazier, a professor at George Washington University, has used I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name to train teachers how to "talk about race" in their classrooms.
Due to Maya Angelou's use of understatement, self-mockery, humor, and irony, readers of Angelou's autobiographies wonder what she "left out" and are unsure about how to respond to the events Angelou describes.Maya Angelou's depictions of her experiences of racism force white readers to explore their feelings about race and their own "privileged status". Glazier found that although critics have focused on where Maya Angelou fits within the genre of African-American autobiography and on her literary techniques, readers react to her storytelling with "surprise, particularly when [they] enter the text with certain expectations about the genre of autobiography"
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
"When you learn, teach, when you get, give."
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
"I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
"When you learn, teach, when you get, give."
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
"I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
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