Maya Angelou on the Noble Story of Black Womanhood (1973) from rape clip Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 40 sec
✓ Published: 30-May-2014

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Maya Angelou, who died yesterday at the age of 86, spoke with Bill on several occasions over the course of her life, but his first interview with her was filmed in 1973 in her cottage in Berkeley, California. At the time, Angelou, 45, was already an accomplished singer, dancer, poet, author, actress, editor, songwriter and playwright. As Bill noted in his introduction, this “gifted and very human woman” had “touched more bases than Henry Aaron. Yet, all these categories failed to do justic