APPENDIX A MAYA ANGELOU’S SELECTED POEMS A. Phenomenal Woman Pretty woman wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to fit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Universitas Sumatera Utara They swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them, They say they still can't see. I say, It's the arch of my back, The sun in my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. Universitas Sumatera Utara I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing, I ought to make you proud I say, It's the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, The palm of my hand, The need for my care. 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. B. Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, Universitas Sumatera Utara You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. Universitas Sumatera Utara You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise Universitas Sumatera Utara I rise I rise. C. Equality You declare you see me dimly through a glass which will not shine, though I stand before you boldly, trim in rank and making time. You do own to hear me faintly as a whisper out of range, while my drums beat out the message and the rhythms never change. Equality, and I will be free. Equality, and I will be free. You announce my ways are wanton, that I fly from man to man, but if I’m just a shadow to you, could you ever understand? We have lived a painful history, we know the shameful past, Universitas Sumatera Utara but I keep on marching forward, but you keep on coming last. Equality, and I will be free. Equality, and I will be free. Take the blinders from your vision, take the padding from your ears, and confess you’ve heard me crying, and admit you’ve seen my tears. Hear the tempo so compelling, hear the blood throb through my veins. Yes, my drums are beating nightly, and the rhythms never change. Equality, and I will be free. Equality, and I will be free. D. Woman Work I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Universitas Sumatera Utara Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I've got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this hut Then see about the sick And the cotton to pick. Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain Fall softly, dew drops And cool my brow again. Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again. Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Universitas Sumatera Utara Let me rest tonight. Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You're all that I can call my own. E. Men When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino men, old men. Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always Going somewhere. They knew I was there. Fifteen Years old and starving for them. Under my window, they would pauses, Their shoulders high like the Breasts of a young girl, Jacket tails slapping over Those behinds, Men. One day they hold you in the Palms of their hands, gentle, as if you Universitas Sumatera Utara Were the last raw egg in the world. Then They tighten up. Just a little. The First squeeze is nice. A quick hug. Soft into your defenselessness. A little More. The hurt begins. Wrench out a Smile that slides around the fear. When the Air disappears, Your mind pops, exploding fiercely, briefly, Like the head of a kitchen match. Shattered. It is your juice That runs down their legs. Staining their shoes. When the earth rights itself again, And taste tries to return to the tongue, Your body has slammed shut. Forever. No keys exist. Then the window draws full upon Your mind. There, just beyond The sway of curtains, men walk. Knowing something. Going someplace. But this time, I will simply Stand and watch. Universitas Sumatera Utara Maybe. F. Remembrance Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason. When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love lingers between my breasts, then, only then, can I greedily consume your presence. G. Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind Universitas Sumatera Utara and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Universitas Sumatera Utara The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Universitas Sumatera Utara APPENDIX B BIOGRAPHY OF MAYA ANGELOU Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American poet, memoirist, actress, and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her father, Bailey Johnson, was a doorman and navy dietitian. Her mother, Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, was a real estate agent, trained surgical nurse, and later a merchant marine. Angelou's older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite "Maya", shortened from "my-a-sister". The details of Angelou's life described in her six autobiographies and in numerous interviews, speeches, and articles tend to be inconsistent. Her biographer, Mary Jane Lupton, has explained that when Angelou has spoken about her life, she has done so eloquently but informally and "with no time chart in front of her". Evidence suggests that Angelou's family is descended from the Mende people of West Africa. A 2008 PBS documentary found that her maternal greatgrandmother, Mary Lee, had been emancipated after the Civil War. The documentary suggested that Lee became pregnant by her former white owner, John Savin, who forced Lee to sign a false statement accusing another man of being the father of her child. After indicting Savin for forcing Lee to commit perjury, and despite discovering that Savin was the father, a grand jury found him not guilty. Lee was sent to the Clinton County poorhouse in Missouri with her daughter, Marguerite Baxter, who became Angelou's grandmother. Angelou described Lee as "that poor little Black girl, physically and mentally bruised." Universitas Sumatera Utara The first 17 years of Angelou's life are documented in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. When Angelou was three, and her brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage" ended. Their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas alone by train to live with her paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson. Henderson prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because "she made wise and honest investments". Four years later, the children's father "came to Stamps without warning" and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At age eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. She confessed it to her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty, but was jailed for one day. Four days after his release, he was found kicked to death, probably by Angelou's uncles. Angelou became mute, believing, as she has stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone..." She remained mute for nearly five years. Shortly after Freeman's murder, Angelou and her brother were sent back to their grandmother once again. Angelou credits a teacher and friend of her family, a Mrs. Bertha Flowers, with helping her speak again. Flowers introduced her to authors such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as Black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Fauset. When Angelou was 13, she and her brother returned to live with her mother in San Francisco. During World War II, she attended George Washington High School, then studying dance and drama on a scholarship at the California Labor School. Universitas Sumatera Utara Before graduating, she worked as the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Three weeks after completing school, she gave birth to her son, Clyde, who also became a poet. At the end of Angelou's third autobiography, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, her son changed his name to "Guy Johnson". Angelou's second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, recounts her life from age 17 to 19. This book "depicts a single mother's slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime." Angelou at times worked as a prostitute and as the madam of a brothel. The book describes how she moved through a series of relationships, occupations, and cities as she attempted to raise her son without job training or advanced education. Angelou has been married three times or more (something she has never clarified, "for fear of sounding frivolous"). In her third autobiography, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Angelou describes her three-year marriage to Greek sailor Tosh Angelos in 1949. Up to that point she went by the name of "Marguerite Johnson", or "Rita", but changed her professional name to "Maya Angelou." Her managers at San Francisco nightclub The Purple Onion strongly suggested that she adopt a more theatrical name that captured the feel of her Calypso dance performances. In 1952, she won a scholarship and trained in African dance with dancer Pearl Primus of Trinidad. Later Angelou studied modern dance with Martha Graham. The dance team "Al and Rita" she co-created with choreographer Alvin Ailey combined elements of modern dance, ballet, and West African dance. During 1954 and 1955 Angelou toured Europe with a Universitas Sumatera Utara production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She began her practice of trying to learn the language of every country she visited, and in a few years she gained proficiency in several languages. In 1957, riding on the popularity of Calypso music, Angelou recorded her first album, Miss Calypso. She appeared in an offBroadway review that inspired the film Calypso Heat Wave, in which Angelou sang and performed her own compositions. In the late 1950s, Angelou moved to New York City and began to concentrate on her writing career. She joined the Harlem Writers Guild, headed by her friend, novelist James O. Killens. She met a number of major African American authors, including her close friend and mentor James Baldwin, and published for the first time. After meeting and hearing civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in 1960, she and Killens organized "the legendary" Cabaret for Freedom to benefit the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and was named SCLC's Northern Coordinator. In 1961, she performed in Jean Genet's The Blacks, along with Roscoe Lee Brown, James Earl Jones, and Cicely Tyson. According to Hagen, her contributions to civil rights as a fundraiser and SCLC organizer were successful and "eminently effective". Also in 1961, Angelou met South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make, who brought her and Guy to live with him in Cairo, where Angelou began working as an associate editor at the weekly newspaper Arab Observer. In 1962 her relationship with Make ended, and she and Guy moved to Ghana. She became an assistant administrator and instructor at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama, was a feature editor for The African Review, Universitas Sumatera Utara acted in and wrote plays. After becoming close friends with Malcolm X, Angelou returned to the US in 1964 to help him build a new civil rights organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity; he was assassinated shortly afterward. In 1968 Martin King asked her to organize a march, but he too was assassinated, on her birthday (April 4). Instead of celebrating her birthday, she sent flowers to King's widow, Coretta Scott King, until King's death in 2006. Inspired by a meeting with her friend James Baldwin, Angelou dealt with her grief at King's assassination in 1968 by writing her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969, which brought her first international recognition and acclaim. In 1973, Angelou married Paul du Feu, a British-born carpenter and remodeler, and moved to Sonoma, California with him. The years to follow were some of Angelou's most productive as a writer and poet. She worked as a composer, writing for singer Roberta Flack and composing movie scores. She wrote articles, short stories, TV scripts, autobiographies and poetry, produced plays, and spoke on the university lecture circuit. In 1977 Angelou appeared in a supporting role in the television mini-series Roots. Her screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced. In the late '70s, Angelou met Oprah Winfrey when Winfrey was a TV anchor in Baltimore, Maryland; Angelou would later become Winfrey's close friend and mentor. Angelou divorced de Feu and returned to the southern United States in 1981, where she accepted the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Universitas Sumatera Utara In 1993, she recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. Since the 1990s, Angelou has actively participated in the lecture circuit. Angelou campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential primaries, giving her public support to Senator Hillary Clinton. In the run up to the January Democratic primary in South Carolina, the Clinton campaign ran ads featuring Angelou's endorsement, attempting to rally support in the Black community; but Obama won the South Carolina primary; finishing 29 points ahead of Clinton and taking 80% of the Black vote. When Clinton's campaign ended, Angelou put her support behind Senator Barack Obama, who won the election and became the first African American president of the United States. She stated, "We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism". In 2009, Angelou campaigned for the same-sex marriage bill in New York state. Angelou was also the first African American woman to direct a major motion picture, Down in the Delta, in 1998, at the age of seventy. In February 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with President George H.W. Bush, businessman Warren Buffett, and civil rights activist John Lewis. Universitas Sumatera Utara APPENDIX C MAYA ANGELOU’S AWARDS, HONORS, AND WORKS Awards • Chubb Fellowship Award, Yale University (1970) • Nominated for the National Book Award for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) • Pulitzer Prize Nomination for Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1972) • Tony Award Nomination for her performance in "Look Away" (1973) • Distinguished Visiting Professor , Wichita State University (1974) • Board of Trustees/American Film Institute (1975) • Member, American Revolution Bicentennial Council, appointed by President Gerald Ford (1975) • Rockfeller Foundation Scholar in Italy (Scholar-in-residence at the Bellagio Study & Conference Center) (1975) • Ladies' Home Journal Award ("Woman of the Year in Communication") (1976) • Nominated for an Emmy Award in made-for-television movie "Roots" (1977) • Golden Eagle Award, Documentary for PBS, "Afro-American in the Arts" (1977) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Member, Presidential Commision for International Women’s Year, appointed by Jimmy Carter (1977) • Ladies' Home Journal "Top 100 Most Influential Women" (1983) • The Matrix Award, Field of Books from Women in Communication, Inc. (1983) • The North Carolina Award in Literature (1987) • American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (1990) • Candace Award, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1990) • Recipient of the Langston Hughes Award presented at the City College of New York (1991) • Distinguished Woman of North Carolina (1992) • Essence Woman of the Year (1992) • Horatio Alger Award (1992) • Women in Film Crystal Award (1992) • Drum Major for Justice from The California Advocate Fresno’s African American Community Newspaper (1992) • Inaugural Poet for President Bill Clinton (1993) • Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1993) • Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Non Musical Album for On the Pulse of Morning (1993) • Rollins College Walk of Fame (1994) • Spingarn Award, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1994) • Citizen Diplomat Award (1995) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Frank G. Wells Award (1995) • Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Non Musical Album for Phenomenal Woman (1995) • Lifetime Membership, NAACP, Honeywell Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1996) • President's Award, Collegiate of Language Association for Outstanding Achievements, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1996) • Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Los Angeles & Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Association National Award (1996) • The New York Black 100, Schomburg Center & The Black New Yorkers (1996) • American Ambassador for UNICEF (1996) • National Conference of Christians & Jews, Distinguished Merit Citation (1997) • NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction for Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) • W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Expert-in-Residence Program (1997) • North Carolina “Woman of the Year” Award, Black Publishers Association (1997) • Presidential & Lecture Series Award, University of North Florida (1997) • Black Caucus of American Library Association, Cultural Keepers Award (1997) • Humanitarian Contribution Award, Boston, Massachusetts (1997) • Homecoming Award, Oklahoma Center for Poets & Writers (1997) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Boards of Governers, Winston-Salem State University, Maya Angelou Institute for the Improvement of Child and Family Education (1998) • Alston/Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award (1998) • Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame (1998) • Christopher Award, New York (1998) • American Airlines Audience, Gold Plaque Choice Award for Down in the Delta from Chicago International Film Festival (1998) • City Proclamation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina from Mayor Jack Cavanaugh (1998) • Sheila Award, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia (1999) • Special Olympics World Games, Speaker, Raleigh, North Carolina (1999) • Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (1999) • Named one of the top 100 Best Writers of the 20th Century by Writer's Digest (1999) • Presidential Medal of Arts from President Clinton (2000) • Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (EMMAs), Lifetime Achievement (2002) • Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for A Song Flung up to Heaven (2002) • American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Heatlh in Aging Award (2002) • Charles Evans Hughes Award, National Conference for Community and Justice (2004) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Grammy nomination for “Best Spoken Word Album” for Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004) • Heart’s Day Honoree, Howard University (2005) • John Hope Franklin Award (June 2006) • Black Caucus of American Library Association, Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Author Award (2006) • New York Times Best Seller List (May 2006) • Mother Teresa Award for her untiring devotion and service to humanity (August 2006) • The Quill Award for Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem (October 2006) • Matrix Human Services, Humanitarian Contribution Award, Detroit, Michigan (October 13, 2006) • Nomination for NAACP Image Award, “Outstanding Literary Works” for Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer (February 10, 2007) • The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc., Dallas, Texas, For Outstanding Contribution and Support to TBALL (September 23, 2007) • Martha Parker Legacy Award (October 17, 2007) • Medal of Honor Award, in recognition of her work in poetry, literature, film, speaking, etc. from the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation (November 29, 2007). This is the first time award presented to someone outside Spain. • 50th Grammy Awards Year nomination for “Best Spoken Word Album” for Celebrations (2007) • Inducted in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia (January 12, 2008) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Voice of Peace Award (first recipient), Hope for Peace and Justice (2008) • Cornell Medallion (2008) • Gracie Allen Award (2008) • Lincoln Medal Recipient, in recognition of her accomplishments/personal attributes that illuminate the character of President Abraham Lincoln, Washington D. C. (June 1, 2008) • The Ninth Annual Walter Dandy Orator Award, The Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Orlando, Florida (September 22, 2008) • The Marian Anderson Award, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 17, 2008) • Nominations for 40th NAACP Image Awards for “Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction” for Letter to My Daughter and “Outstanding Literary Work-Children” for Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem (February 7, 2009) • NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction” for Letter to My Daughter (February 12, 2009) • AWRT’s Gracie Award, Individual Achievement Award for “Outstanding Host” for the weekly XM Radio Program, The Dr. Maya Angelou Show. (June 4, 2009) • Presidential Medal of Freedom (2010) Universitas Sumatera Utara Honors • Honorary Degree - Portland State University (1973) • Honorary Degree - Smith College (1975) • Honorary Degree - Mills College (1975) • Honorary Degree - Lawrence University (1976) • Honorary Degree - Wake Forest University (1977) • Honorary Degree - Columbia College (1979) • Honorary Degree - Occidental College (1979) • Honorary Degree - Atlanta University (1980) • Honorary Degree - University of Arkansas at Pinebluff (1980) • Honorary Degree - Wheaton College (1981) • Honorary Degree - Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland (1982) • Honorary Degree - Northeastern Universiy (1982) • Honorary Degree - Kean College of New Jersey (1982) • Honorary Degree - Claremont Graduate School (1982) • Honorary Degree - Spelman College (1983) • Honorary Degree - Boston College (1983) • Honorary Degree - Winston-Salem State University (1984) • Honorary Degree - University Brunesis (1984) • Honorary Degree - Rollins College (1985) • Honorary Degree - Howard University (1985) • Honorary Degree - Tufts University (1985) • Honorary Degree - University of Vermont (1985) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Honorary Degree - North Carolina School of the Arts (1986) • Honorary Degree - Mount Holyoke College (1987) • Honorary Degree - North Carolina School of the Arts (1988) • Honorary Degree - University of Southern California (1989) • Honorary Degree - Northeastern University (1992) • Honorary Degree - Skidmore College (1993) • Honorary Degree - University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1993) • Honorary Degree - Academy of Southern Arts & Letters (1993) • Honorary Degree - American Film Institute (1994) • Honorary Degree - Bowie State University (1994) • Honorary Degree - University of Durham (1995) • Honorary Degree - Shaw University (1997) • Honorary Degree - Wake Forest University (1997) • Honorary Degree - Lafayette College (1999) • Honorary Degree - Hope College (2001) • Honorary Degree - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003) • Honorary Degree - Columbia University (2003) • Honorary Degree - Eastern Connecticut University (2003) • Honorary Degree - Chapman University (2007) • School of Nursing recommendation for honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Minnesota (2007) • Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia (September 2008) • Honorary Degree - Kean University, Hillside, New Jersey (May 2009) Universitas Sumatera Utara Works Autobiographies • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) • Gather Together In My Name (1974) • Singin' And Swingin' And Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976) • The Heart of a Woman (1981) • All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) • A Song Flung Up To Heaven (2002) • The Complete Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (September 2004) Personal Essays • Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now (1993 and 1994) • Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) • Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes (September 2004) • Letter to My Daughter (September 2008) Poetry Collections • Just Give Me A Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971) • Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975) • Still I Rise (1978) • Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing (1983) • Poems: Maya Angelou (1986) • Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987) Universitas Sumatera Utara • I Shall Not Be Moved (1990) • On the Pulse of Morning • The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994) • Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems for Women (1995) • A Brave and Startling Truth (1995) • From a Black Man to a Black Woman (October 1995) • Extravagant Spirits (May 1997) • Amazing Peace (2005) • Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me (April 2006) • Celebrations, Rituals of Peace & Prayer (October 31, 2006) • Poetry for Young People (2007) Children’s Books • Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (1993) • My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken and Me (1994) • Kofi and His Magic (1996) • Maya’s World Series (2004) Plays • Cabaret For Freedom, 1960 - produced off-Broadway (in collaboration with Godfrey Cambridge). • The Least of These, 1966 - produced in Los Angeles. • Gettin' Up Stayed On My Mind, 1967. • Ajax, 1974 - produced in Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum). Universitas Sumatera Utara • And Still I Rise, 1976 - produced in Oakland, California (Oakland Ensemble Theater). • Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, 1988 - produced in London (Author Errol John). Screenplays • Georgia, Georgia, 1972 - produced by Cinerama, Sweden. • All Day Long, 1974 - produced by American Film Institute, Los Angeles. Acting (Televison Appearances) • PBS Documentaries: "Who Cares About Kids" & "Kindred Spirits" • KERA-TV, Dallas, TX; "Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds" WTVS-TV • Detroit, Michigan "To the Contrary" - Maryland Public Television. Two plays for national viewing. • Ten one-hour programs (NET-TV) "Black, Blues, Black"; National • Ghanaian Broadcasting Corporation, Contributor (1963-1964) • Education Television; written, produced and directed in 1968. • Author of six national one half-hour programs; interviews and profiles; "Assignment America" premiered January 1975. • Two programs for the United States Information Agency; written and hosted; Part One: "The Legacy" Part Two: "The Inheritors" (1976) • "Afro-American in the Arts," PBS Documentary • "Humanities Through the Arts," 30 half-hour segments • Sister, Sisters, NBC (1982) Universitas Sumatera Utara • "The Amen Corner" Chris/Rose Productions with Miramax (work-inprogress) in 1999. • Moesha, WB-TV (August 30, 1999) • Runaway (2000) • The Oprah Winfrey Show (2004) Films • Porgy and Bess (directed by George Gershwin), played Ruby in European tour (1954-1955) • Calypso, Off-Broadway (1957) • The Blacks (directed by Jean Genet), played White Queen Off-Broadway, 1960. The Blacks won the Obie Award in 1961 for the best Broadway play, both American and foreign. • Mother Courage (directed by Bertold Brecht), played title role OffBroadway (1964) • Medea (directed by Jean Anouilh), played Nurse in Hollywood. • Look Away (directed by Jerome Kilty) played Mrs. Keckley, Broadway (1973) • Roots (directed by Alex Haley), played Nyo Boto (Grandmother), Hollywood, 1977. Maya Angelou Received Emmy Nomination for Best Supporting Actress. • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (directed by Fielder Cook, based on the Book of Maya Angelou), 1979. • How to Make an American Quilt, Universal Pictures (1995) Universitas Sumatera Utara • Poetic Justice (written and directed by John Singleton, poetry written by Maya Angelou), 1993. • Down in the Delta (directed by Maya Angelou), 1998, Miramax Films, Directorial Film Debut. It was released on Video in June 1999. • Medea’s Family Reunion (2006) • The Black Candle (directed by M. K. Asante, narrated and poetry by Maya Angelou), 2011. The Black Candle is an award-winning documentary that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to celebrate the African-American experience. Recordings • Miss Calypso, Liberty Records (1957) • For the Love Of Ivy, Sidney Portier film (1968) • Georgia, Georgia (1972) • All Day Long (1974) • Miss Calypso (1996) Spoken Word Albums • The Poetry of Maya Angelou - GWP Records (1969) • Women in Business - University of Wisconsin (1981) • Been Found, Music & Spoken Word Album with Ashford & Simpson (1996) Universitas Sumatera Utara