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The Luminous Witness

Maya Angelou

✍️ 1928–2014 · Poet, Memoirist & Witness

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

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I am

The Luminous Witness

30% Creator20% Philosopher20% Connector

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

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A universe
MemoirPoetryIdentityResilienceCivil RightsLanguage

"My private cosmos."

/galaxy
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A constellation
MemoirPoetryIdentityResilienceCivil RightsLanguageCreator

"Every star is an idea I've kept."

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I have climbed
1928 · Born in St. Louis1969 · Caged Bird Sings1978 · And Still I Rise1993 · The Inaugural Poem2010 · The Legacy

"Every year, a better version of my mind."

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The Luminous Witness
Maya Angelou
Creator · Philosopher · Connector
36
Books
6
Themes
86
Years
NO. 1928

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

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What they read

  • ›Shakespeare
  • ›Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • ›Frederick Douglass
  • ›W. E. B. Du Bois

What they wrote

  • ›I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • ›And Still I Rise
  • ›On the Pulse of Morning

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