She also wrote the film's soundtrack, despite having very little additional input in the filming of the movie. During her memorial service at Wake Forest University, her son Guy Johnson stated that despite being in constant pain due to her dancing career and respiratory failure, she wrote four books during the last ten years of her life.

They sold more of her books in January 1993 than they did in all of 1992, accounting for a 1,200% increase. According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her.He’s leaning against a wall to the right, his arms crossed over his chest and his gaze locked on me. She was "a reluctant actor", [66] and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for her role in Look Away. Although all her books have been bestsellers, her poetry has not been perceived to be as serious as her prose and has been understudied.

S. history, when as both Lupton and African American scholar Crispin Sartwell put it, the truth was censored out of the need for self-protection. McWhorter recognizes that much of the reason for Angelou's style was the "apologetic" nature of her writing.And knowing now what I couldn't have known then, I can say with certainty that to not have experienced this storyline would have been such a tragedy in itself. Angelou is best known for her seven autobiographies, but she was also a prolific and successful poet. He was annoying, and stuck up, and it honestly felt like he thought the world completely revolved around him. Bloom compares Angelou's works to the writings of Frederick Douglass, stating that both fulfilled the same purpose: to describe Black culture and to interpret it for their wider, white audiences. I didn’t feel anything other than extreme frustration, disgust, anger, and every other negative feeling out there while reading this book.