Hallelujah The Welcome Table

By Maya Angelou

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

By Maya Angelou

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she re-creates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a w...

The Heart of a Woman

By Maya Angelou

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she liv...

Phenomenal Woman

By Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman is a phenomenal poem that speaks to us of where we are as women at the dawn of a new century.  In a clear voice, Maya Angelou vividly reminds us of our towering strength and beauty...

Still I Rise

By Maya Angelou

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By Maya Angelou

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the...

Kofi and His Magic

By Maya Angelou

My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me

By Maya Angelou

Full color photographs. "Hello, Stranger-Friend" begins Maya Angelou's story about Thandi, a South African Ndebele girl, her mischievous brother, her beloved chicken, and the astonishing mural art...

Maya's World: Angelina of Italy

By Maya Angelou