The music of the “I Have a Dream” speech is a replication of the music which comes out of the mouths of the African American preacher. Preacher, singer, blues singer, jazz singer, rap person, it is so catching, so hypnotic, so wonderful that, as a poet, I continue to try to catch it, to catch the music.
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Maya Angelou
Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
United States · 1928–2014
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American memoirist, poet and civil rights activist, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, who read On the Pulse of Morning at the 1993 presidential inauguration.
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