SOURCE: “Conversations with Maya Angelou,” edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot, University Press of Mississippi, 1989, pp. 146–56.
In the following interview, originally conducted in 1983, Angelou discusses the influence of other writers, social conditions, and her own experience upon her work.
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