‘Cultural icon’ Maya Angelou dies at 86
“I’m not modest,” she said last year. “Modesty is a learned behaviour. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out.”
Her story awed millions. The young single mother who performed at strip clubs to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read memoirs of the past few decades.
