Maya Angelou is going to be 80 years old. This woman has been through so much and has shared her wisdom through poetry with the rest of the world for years. I adore her and obviously I'm not the only one - USA today wrote a beautiful article honoring her.
In the dining room of her elegantly restored Harlem town house, beneath painted clouds on a light blue ceiling, Maya Angelou is asked how it feels to be turning 80."Exciting!" she says with a broad smile, then adds: "The body knows. The bones don't let you forget."
The woman who defies a simple label — Angelou has been a memoirist, poet, civil rights activist, actress, director, professor, singer and dancer — is getting an early birthday gift.
Two longtime friends and her niece, who is Angelou's archivist, have collaborated on an illustrated book, Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration (Doubleday, $30), a tribute and scrapbook, that will be published Tuesday.
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