![]() ![]() President Barack Obama led the tributes, hailing Angelou as “one of the brightest lights of our time – a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.”įormer President Bill Clinton, who invited Angelou to give a reading at his 1993 inauguration, said America had “lost a national treasure.” She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace,” he said. “She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. Her son Guy Johnson said his mother “passed quietly in her home” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and expressed thanks that “her ascension was not belaboured by a loss of acuity or comprehension.” She was 86.Īngelou was best known for the first installment of her memoirs “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” the first non-fiction best-seller by an African-American woman.Ī friend of slain civil rights hero Martin Luther King, she was widely respected in the United States and abroad as a strong voice for both black people and women. WASHINGTON: Maya Angelou, the beloved African-American author and civil rights activist renowned for a searing memoir charting her childhood in the racially segregated South, died Wednesday.
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