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Maya Angelou delivering the Inaugural poem, “On the Pulse Of Morning” at the William Jefferson Clinton Inauguration January, 1993.

Source: Photo by Sharon Farmer. Reproduced by permission of William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

William Jefferson Clinton congratulating Maya Angelou at his Inauguration.

Maya Angelou at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, after having received an honorary doctor of letters degree.

Maya Angelou as a fellow at the Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio, on Lake Como, Liguria, Italy, autumn of 1975

Villa Serbelloni on the hillside above Lake Como

Maya Angelou with her sister writers Rosa Guy and Louise Meriwether on one of their sojourns together in North Carolina. Photo © by poet Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelou at the latter’s party celebrating Toni Morrison’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993. Winter, 1994. Photo © by Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Holograph copy of Maya Angelou’s important, and often-circulated, statement, A Pledge to Rescue Our Youth. Written for the Essence Music Festival in 2006, this document has been widely circulated by community and church groups ever since.

Coretta Scott King and Maya Angelou. Because Martin Luter King, Jr., had been assassinated on the morning of Angelou’s birthday, she renounced any personal celebration. Every year, she and the widow Coretta King communicated on the day of his assassination. Photo © by Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

For several years Maya maintained a home in Atlanta, Georgia. At one of the many parties she hosted while living there she paused for this photo with Amina Baraka at the side, Val Gray Ward, and the writers Sonia Sanchez and Mari Evans. Photo © by poet Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Singer-song-writers Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson collaborating with Maya Angelou on one of the songs for their album Been Found. Photo © by poet Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Maya Angelou receiving the National Arts and Humanities Medal from President William J. Clinton in December 2000. In 2011 she was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Photographer: Ralph Alswang. Credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library.