TV adaptation of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKvfM7eMRXU
On April 28, 1979, this made-for-TV adaption of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings aired on CBS. Angelou, along with screenwriter Leonora Thuna, wrote the screenplay herself while Fielder Cook directed.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46459
The full text of the poem from which Maya Angelou derived I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing's title.
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