{"id":25363,"date":"2014-05-29T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25363"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:40:41","slug":"rip-maya-angelou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25363","title":{"rendered":"RIP Maya Angelou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, May 27th, legendary writer Maya Angelou died at age 86. One of the most famous African American writers to emerge in the 20th century, Angelou was a poet, playwright, and great orator.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Maya Angelou, the celebrated poet, writer and activist who rose from a childhood of poverty in Arkansas to become an American literary icon, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., at the age of 86.<\/p>\n

Born in 1928 as Marguerite Johnson, Ms. Angelou led a multitude of lives. She drove a streetcar in San Francisco, was a newspaper editor in Egypt and worked as a cook and a prostitute when she was a destitute single mother. She wrote television and movie screenplays, performed on the stage as a singer, dancer and actor and released an album of Calypso music.<\/p>\n

But Ms. Angelou will be remembered above all as the “people’s poet,” a towering public figure and literary icon whose words seem to appear everywhere\u2014spoken at a presidential inauguration, stamped on Hallmark greeting cards and, on the day she died, cascading on Twitter and Facebook as millions commemorated her life and work.<\/p>\n

Ms. Angelou was busy writing and planning public appearances in her final days. She was scheduled to receive an award in Houston on Friday but canceled her appearance, citing a health emergency. (via Wall Street Journal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, May 27th, legendary writer Maya Angelou died at age 86. One of the most famous African American writers to emerge in the 20th century, Angelou was a poet, playwright, and great orator.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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