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Online Sources: Maya Angelou

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Conversations with Maya Angelou
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"(interview date 1983) In the following interview, originally conducted in 1983, Angelou discusses the influence of other writers, social conditions, and her own experience upon her work."
DPLA Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Maya Angelou
An Interview with Maya Angelou
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An Interview with Maya Angelou
Carol E. Neubauer and Maya Angelou
The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer, 1987), pp. 286-292
Published by: The Massachusetts Review, Inc.
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25089856

John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Clinton Library [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Office of the White House [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 A5
ISBN: 0394502523
Publication Date: 1978-08-12
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 A17 1994
ISBN: 067942895X
Publication Date: 1994
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z464 1974
ISBN: 0394486927
Publication Date: 1974-04-12
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z465 1981
ISBN: 0394512731
I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 I17 1990
ISBN: 0394586182
Publication Date: 1990-05-19
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z46 2013
ISBN: 1400066115
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 P48 1994
ISBN: 0679439242
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z475 1976
ISBN: 0394405455
Publication Date: 1976-08-12

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