Library Journal, Collected Maya Angelou Resources

Fresh Air Remembers Maya Angelou (NPR)

Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 (The New York Times)

"In a statement, President Obama said, “Today, Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time — a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman,” adding, “She inspired my own mother to name my sister Maya.”

Maya Angelou was more beautiful than she realised (the Guardian)

"she was more beautiful than perhaps even she realised, because she was, among other things, such an artist, that she could not only create worlds on paper, or in a listener's imagination, but she also managed, over and over again in her long life, to create and recreate herself."