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[edit] Updates from Maya Herself

I just got to listen to Dr. Angelou this evening the University of Missouri and noted some differences about what she says about herself and what Wikipedia says. I'm not much of an editor so hopefully someone can assist me and make the updates I'm proposing. First of all her year of birth appears to be incorrect. I know 1928 is what is cited on her website, but she personally said she is 79 and turning 80 next month. I am not certain she was really born in St. Louis. She said prior to being sent to Arkansas, she lived in southern Calfornia and returned there as a teen. She said she either she has 60 doctorates or at least 60 (sorry, cannot recall exactly which). This seems quite noteworthy. Thank you to whoever can help with these updates! Karen 03:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)Karen ScienceGirl05 63.3.11.2 20:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)Hey!!!Maya WAS born on 1928!!!!Do the math!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!63.3.11.2 20:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greek?

Her surname seems Greek to me. is she married to a Greek man? No was she married to a Greek man. Actually, her first husband WAS a Greek man named Tosh Angelos. Optim 22:06, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

actually its of greek cypriot (from the Republic of Cyprus, an island off the coast) origin. she shares my surname exactly. she married a sailor named "Angelos". she may have changed the spelling to be more phonectically pleasing. king sarah 11:39, 16 jan 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poet Laureate

Angelou is often referred to as being a U.S. Poet Laureate. I was going to add this to the article, but I can't find any citations, and she isn't on the Library of Congress list. Shoehorn 22:29, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Believe it or not, whether she is referred to this way or not, I think most people would be surprised to find she has never been a Poet Laureate of the U. S. An act of congress changed the title to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. At that article, you can find the entire list, but unfortunately Maya Angelou has yet to receive the honor.--65.16.61.35 21:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] text dump from Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, with the name Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis Missouri. She got the name Maya from her brother, Bailey. He called her Mya sister, my, and then Maya. Since her brother was her favorite person, she kept the name. She and Bailey moved to Arkansas with their grandmother when Maya was three and Bailey was four. They experienced hatred from white people in the Segrated South. They spent a lot of time in Church to escape from the hate and segregation. In the first few years of living with their grandma, Maya thought that her parents were dead. Maya soon found out differently when their parents sent them Christmas presents from California. Maya soon began to wonder why their parents had sent them to Stamps, Arkansas. When Maya was seven, her father came to Stamps to take the children back to California. To Maya and Bailey's surprise, their father was actually taking them to Missouri, where their mother now lived. Their father left them in Missouri and returned to California alone. Maya and her brother, Bailey, made ice cream by puring milk and sugar on snow. Maya was raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Mr. Freeman, while living with her mother. "What he did to me, and what I alllowed, must have been bad if already God let me hurt so much." So In 1936, Maya was traumatized by the sexual assault when she was only eight years old. She refused to speak to anyone but Bailey. Maya was sent back to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas with Bailey. In 1939, Maya Angelou began talking after nearly four years of silence. Maya moved to San Francisco with Bailey to live with their mother and started high school there.

[edit] Roots

If she won an Emmy for Roots, why doesn't the article on Roots mention her? JMcC 11:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree. An Emmy nomination is not listed at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029723/awards or http://emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php. --67.78.27.162 22:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey Itatagi Lush and the Nanch were here! This is a cool website. It really helped when I was doing a report on Maya Angelou.

"Maya Angelou, Extraordinary Human Being," Internet Exploerer, October 27, 2005.http://littlerock.about.com/cs/musicbooks/a/maya angelou.htm

Kallen, Stuart. Maya Angelou, I have a Dream. Minneapolis Minnesota: Abdo Consulting Group Inc., 1993.

Maya Angelou. 1997. Gale. Access Date: October 28, 2005. www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/angelou_m.htm

"Maya Angelou," Internet Explorer, October 27, 2005. www.mayaangelou.com

Shapiro, Miles. Maya Angelou. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.

Lisandrelli, Elaine. Maya Angelou: More than a Poet. Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers Inc., 1996.

[edit] Consistant Life

Maya Angelou is a member of this pro-life group which is against abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia. Dwain

I really enjoy reading Maya Angelou's poem and she is insprirational (Sierra B.)

[edit] "La Vie Boheme" - Rent

She is mentioned in the song "La Vie Boheme" from the Rock-Opera Rent.

Characters Mimi and Angel sing:

To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries

To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese

To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo

To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou

[edit] Maya Angelou is not dead

Why does it say she died in 2002? According to all the sources I checked--including her own website--she is definitely alive. She's in Medea's Family Reunion which is due to be released in 2006. And how could she have given a commencement address in 2005?

I should hope she's still alive, she's supposed to be lecturing at my school next week. -Fadookie Talk 09:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The title's On the Pulse of Morning

Not The Rock Speaks Out. Maya angelou lived in Stamps when she lived with whom she called "momma" right?


[edit] removal of quote

I removed the discussion posting titled "A quote to live by" because it was not appropriate for the discussion section of a Wikipedia article. The discussion page is, according Wikipedia's guidelines, designed to "provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page." An homage to the biographical stub's subject is not appropriate material for Wikipedia, whether the talk pages or the articles themselves. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.232.207.175 (talk) 04:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

I am going to remove "the demon spawn" part of the biographical information" WTF is that about Dkceaser 22:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)dkceaser

[edit] References

Poetlister removed the {{verify}} and {{unreferenced}} tags, claiming "there's plenty of references". The current version has a whopping two in-text citations and no "References" section. I added the {{citations missing}} tag. --Jtalledo (talk) 23:59, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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well i did not see anthing about her dieying in 2002 so you need to check that again .but then i could be wrong. but what ever


I personlly think she went throught a whole heck of a lot

[edit] singing career???

Ms. Angelou also had a singing career, though the extent of it I don't know. I know she released the record Miss Calypso through the label Scamp in 1957; but I don't know what else, if anything. I'd write the section myself, but I don't know the history and am not in the mood to search it out right now. <spetz>.72.76.248.151 19:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] age

The info box states Angelou was born in 1927 and is 79 years of age. This is not so. She by all accounts was born in 1928 and since her birthday has not yet arrived this year, this would make her 78 years old. 03:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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