Is Maya Angelou a Feminist writer?

Poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar, Maya Angelou is a world-famous author. She is best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style. On April 4, 1928, Marguerite Annie Johnson, known to the world as Maya Angelou, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. read more

(INTERVIEW WITH MAYA ANGELOU BY MARIANNE SCHNALL) If you read this interview, you can see why the word "feminist" would describe her, and how it fits with her other political values. Wonderful woman, wonderful writer, wonderful human being. And feminist. read more

related: 10 life lessons from maya angelou Angelou became an icon during the Civil Rights Movement, and was close friends with poets Sonia Sanchez and the late Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others. read more

Poet, activist and writer, Maya Angelou was probably best known for her first memoir, Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969, for delivering the inaugural poem at Bill Clinton’s swearing-in ceremony in 1993 and for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, from President Obama in 2011. read more