WASHINGTON: US author and rights activist Maya Angelou was hailed as a teacher, trailblazer and spiritual mother in eulogies yesterday by First Lady Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton and television icon Oprah Winfrey.
Angelou, who died last month at age 86, was world-renowned as a poet, actress, singer, dancer, author and civil rights activist.
Born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928, in Saint Louis, Missouri, she was perhaps best known for the first installment of her memoirs “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” the first non-fiction best-seller by an African-American woman.
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