Gabriela Maj/Getty Images Angelou signing copies of her book, 'Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter' in 2008 So why do people keep pinning quotes on Maya Angelou? Basically, it's because the lines ...

In the summer of 2002 Maya Angelou joined James Naughtie for an intimate evening with readers at Broadcasting House. Here she sheds further light on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...