The Washington Post, February 22nd, 1993
Maya Angelou always makes me cry. She also makes me laugh, of course, and sing and think and feel. But the one certainty is that her every performance - be it at lecture hall, poetry reading, dinner table or presidential inaugural - will at some point make me cry. She did it again last week, with readings from her work and others' at a Frederick Douglass birthday celebration. There's no point in trying to recreate for you the words that evoked my tears this time. It cannot be done. An Angelou performance is such a blend of words, delivery, acting and feeling - so much involved with her whole ...
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