Maya Angelou · every age
What was Maya Angelou doing at 44?
Mute for five years as a child; the voice of a nation at 64
- c. 1972
Pulitzer Prize nomination for her poetry collection
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971). The same year, her screenplay Georgia, Georgia was the first by a Black woman to be produced.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Clinton Library (1993), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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