“I believe that each of us comes from the Creator
trailing wisps of glory.”
(Mary Angelou, after her 65th birthday)
Influential author, teacher, newspaper editor, poet, educator, civil rights activist, film director and actress Maya Angelou died at 86 years old today in Winston-Salem, N.C. From humble beginnings in rural Arkansas as a teen high school dropout and a single mom, Maya Angelou rose to international fame after the publication of her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and became one of the most influential and beloved and renowned writers and poets of her generation.
