PaginePoet, memoirist and civil-rights activist, Maya Angelou wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and poems of strength and dignity such as “Still I Rise”. She read “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Clinton’s 1993 inauguration.
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (1971), And Still I Rise (1978), On the Pulse of Morning (1993).