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Episode #204: Interview with Maya Angelou OBD: November 21, 1973 Moyers interviews Maya Angelou, a wide-ranging figure in the arts. Ms. Angelou has been successful playwright, lecturer, director, singer, dancer, actress, editor and political activist. Ms. Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, offered a black woman’s perspective on America and its black culture.
Bill Moyers Did you dream? Maya Angelou Yes. Bill Moyers What? Maya Angelou Well, at eight, I dreamed once that I've refined in the number of years. Once I found I'd go to the movies, and I saw people like Shirley Temple and Judy- somebody. Bill Moyers Garland. Oh, gee whiz, yes. Maya Angelo And the Bill Moyers The Wizard of Oz. Maya Angelou Yes. Now that- not Judy Garland. Bill Moyers Oh. Maya Angelou But anyways, those young girls who were in the movies at the time, one is not a plumber on television. She does a plumbing kind of Bill Moyers Upward, downward mobility. Maya Angelou Anyway, I saw them and I thought, you know, they live such rich lives. Maybe what'll happen is maybe I'm really a white girl. And what's going to happen is I'm going to wake up, I'm going to have long blonde hair. And everybody's gonna just go around loving me and sending me off to school. And I would wait at the at the ranch gate for Johnny Mack Brown. And with a little bonnet on. Tragic.
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