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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume...
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou, features many characters...
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979...
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    first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, although her poetry has also been successful. She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication...
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    Maya Angelou (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international...
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  • "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the fourth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It...
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    in the film Rosewood (1997). She had a major role in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings based on Maya Angelou's memoir of the same name, and has the distinction...
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  • autobiographies, starting with the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not...
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    written five of the seven of her series of autobiographies, including the first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Although...
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    events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19. The title is taken from the Bible, but also...
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    Are "Over the Rainbow"". Library of Congress. March 27, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2020. Angelou, Maya (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York:...
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    to be about the struggle of African-Americans. Maya Angelou titled her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from a line in the poem and referenced...
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    in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and continued throughout her series, Angelou upheld the long traditions of African-American autobiography. At the same...
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    described in her first and most well-known autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She became a poet after a series of occupations as a young...
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  • Caged Bird may refer to: Caged bird, a bird kept in a birdcage "Caged Bird", a song by Alicia Keys on her 2001 album Songs in A Minor "Caged Bird" (Wonderfalls)...
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  • first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, although her poetry has also been successful. She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication...
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    (1928–2014) is best known for her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). The rest of the books in her series are Gather Together in My Name...
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  • Angelou at "the threshold of her literary career", writing the opening lines to her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. As she had begun...
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    Hisham Tawfiq (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the Gulf War)
    discovered his love of the arts while performing the poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou in high school. Tawfiq studied at the Negro Ensemble...
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  • most critics consider Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more favorably, The Heart of a Woman has received positive reviews. It...
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    She also acted in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979), Long Day's Journey into Night (1982), Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), The Court-Martial of...
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  • autobiographies, especially her first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She began, early in her writing career, of alternating the publication of an autobiography...
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  • : 60 : 101  Maya Angelou mentions learning Tutnese as a child in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first volume of her series of autobiographies. She and her...
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    and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Angelou considered herself...
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  • as Gwen Hailey Mississippi Burning (1988) as Mrs. Walker I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) as Lillie (credited as Tommie Stewart) Roll of Thunder...
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  • performed in the TV adaptations of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) and Gideon's Trumpet (1980). He later starred in the 1987 HBO movie The Man Who Broke...
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    is strengthened as the book ends. Angelou followed her first two installations of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) and Gather...
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  • Writer Julian Mayfield, who called her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "a work of art that eludes description", stated that Angelou's...
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and continued throughout her series, Angelou upholds the long tradition of African-American autobiography. At the same...
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  • Sundown town (category Sundown towns in the United States)
    Williams's play Orpheus Descending, upon which the film is based. In her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), poet Maya Angelou describes Mississippi...
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