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In the BBC 100 collection, recording used by permission of the BBC and Penguin Random House.

Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4th 1928, and raised in Arkansas. She is often referred to as the pioneer for ...

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Celebrating 100 years of poetry on the BBC

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