Maya Angelou

Poet, Author, Civil Rights Activist · Aries · born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Maya Angelou was an American poet and memoirist whose seven autobiographies traced a life from a segregated childhood in Arkansas to the inauguration of a president. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made the interior life of a Black girl in the American South unignorable, and her later work moved between poetry, screenwriting and teaching without ever losing that directness.

Their Aries side

Her Aries courage shows in a body of work that named difficult truths first and worried about comfort afterwards.

Notable works

Achievements

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Three Grammy Awards for spoken word
  • First Black woman to write a screenplay produced as a feature film
  • Recited On the Pulse of Morning at the 1993 inauguration

In their words

  • “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
  • “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Birth chart facts

  • Sun sign: Aries
  • Moon sign: Libra
  • Chinese zodiac: Earth Dragon
  • Life path number: 1 — The Trailblazer
  • Born on a Wednesday

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