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Maya Angelou: What I've encouraged voters to do is to vote for the person I am extolling, and also don't expect that if your man or woman gets in, that all things will be rectified immediately.

Barack Obama once the primaries were over.ĬNN: In the chapter called "National Spirit," you call on political leaders to raise the level of discussion. Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination and then backed Sen. In an interview last week in her 1881 brownstone in Harlem, decorated in vibrant, bright colors, Angelou sat at the round table in her dining room, sipping coffee, as she talked about the election and her work.

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"Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone." "Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow," she writes. She calls on national leaders to raise the country's spirit and on Americans to remember that this is the nation that defeated the Nazis and expanded people's freedom through the civil rights movement. She writes about birth, life and death, about the ways people misunderstand each other and then transcend their conflict.

In 166 pages, "Letter to My Daughter" distills stories from Angelou's life into universal lessons. She was only the second poet invited to read at the swearing in of a new president.īut her career has had many facets - Angelou has been a singer, dancer, playwright, director and teacher. She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's first inauguration. She shares what she's learned in an eventful life in her best-selling new book, "Letter to My Daughter." Angelou achieved fame for her autobiographical writing, including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and her poetry.