Conversations with Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's intensely full life as a poet, autobiographer, composer, dancer, singer, teacher, actress, black activist and filmmaker has made her one of the world's most admired black women. Here in over two dozen interviews from British and American magazines and newspapers we have Maya Angelou in conversation, eloquently sharing with us the facts and philosophy of her remarkable life. With her inimitable sense of style and humour, with strength, warmth and dignity, she talks about her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, so famously described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, about black identity and self-image, about her romantic imagination and the inspirations for her writing, about her personal commitment to the civil rights movement, and about her tenacious optimism.

Conversations with Maya Angelou gives her many thousands of readers the chance to become more intimately acquainted with this extraordinary woman.