Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Abilene

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We will savor the inimitable soul, wisdom, and style of Maya Angelou. Her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by a black woman. Some of her famous poems include "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "On the Pulse of Morning," which she recited at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 and which earned her a Grammy Award. Angelou also enjoyed a career as a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor and singer in plays, musicals, and onscreen. She became the first black woman to have a screenplay produced with the 1972 movie Georgia, Georgia. In her work as a civil rights activist, she collaborated with MLK Jr. and Malcolm X, among others. The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient died in May 2014 at the age of 86.