Maya Angelou.
Patti Smith: Dream of Life: Trailer. Just Kids by Patti Smith. Patti Smith has a mythic imagination.
As a young, desperately poor poet from southern New Jersey, she headed to New York to seek her fortune, nothing in her purse. Her mother had assumed she would follow her into waitressing. ‘Just Kids’ - Patti Smith’s Life With Robert Mapplethorpe. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (an excerpt) Extended Interview: Salman Rushdie.
Maya Angelou - The Official Website. Maya Angelou Biography. “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently.” “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill/ of things unknown but longed for still/ and his tune is heard on the distant hill/ for the caged birds sings of freedom.
"["I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"]”