2015年4月9日木曜日

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" [マヤ・アンジェロウ]



Maya Angelou (マヤ・アンジェロウ)

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

NBC Nightly News (NBCナイトリーニュース)で紹介されていました。記念切手に引用された詩です。オバマ大統領が公の場で引用した詩でもあります。







Maya Angelou (マヤ・アンジェロウ)
1928-2014

Author, poet, actress, and champion of civil rights Dr. Maya Angelou was one of the most dynamic voices in all of 20th-century American literature. The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiographical account of her childhood, gained wide acclaim for its vivid depiction of African-American life in the South.(USPS.COM)








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