Maya Angelou: Poems

References

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Angelou wrote about Vivian Baxter's life and their relationship in Mom & Me & Mom (2013), her final installment in her series of seven autobiographies.
  2. ^ According to Angelou, Annie Henderson built her business with food stalls catering to Black workers, which eventually developed into a store.[9]
  3. ^ The correct Greek spelling of Angelou's husband name is probably "Anastasios Angelopoulos".[30]
  4. ^ Reviewer John M. Miller calls Angelou's performance of her song "All That Happens in the Marketplace" the "most genuine musical moment in the film".[36]
  5. ^ In Angelou's third book of essays, Letter to My Daughter (2009), she credits Cuban artist Celia Cruz as one of the greatest influences of her singing career, and later, credits Cruz for the effectiveness and impact of Angelou's poetry performances and readings.[38]
  6. ^ Guy Johnson, who as a result of this accident in Accra and one in the late 1960s, underwent a series of spinal surgeries. He, like his mother, became a writer and poet.[49]
  7. ^ Angelou called her friendship with Malcolm X "a brother/sister relationship".[53]
  8. ^ Angelou did not celebrate her birthday for many years, choosing instead to send flowers to King's widow Coretta Scott King.[57]
  9. ^ See Mom & Me & Mom, pp. 168–178, for a description of Angelou's experience in Stockholm.
  10. ^ Angelou described their marriage, which she called "made in heaven",[63] in her second book of essays Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997).
  11. ^ Angelou co-wrote "And So It Goes" on Flack's 1988 album Oasis.[65]
  12. ^ Angelou dedicated her 1993 book of essays Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now to Winfrey.[70]
  13. ^ In her fifth autobiography All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1987), Angelou recounts being identified, on the basis of her appearance, as part of the Bambara people, a subset of the Mande.[101]
  14. ^ See Gillespie et al., pp. 153–175.
  15. ^ Angelou describes her brother's addiction to heroin in Mom & Me & Mom, pp. 189–194.
  16. ^ In Angelou's essay, "My Grandson, Home at Last", published in Woman's Day in 1986, she describes the kidnapping and her response to it.[109]
  17. ^ In Letter to My Daughter (2009), Angelou's third book of essays, she related the first time she used legal pads to write.[115]

Citations

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