When Maya Angelou was interviewed by Studs Terkel

In March 1970, Maya Angelow received a radio interview on her memoirs "In birds in the cage know why they sing" in an interview with Stud Telkel. Her story in girlhood in Arkansas' s "stamp", this book is an extended statement of perseverance, a hymn to the dignity of all of us.

Angelou died at the age of 86 on Tuesday, is a symbol of the presidential decree of 2011 and is a winner of the 2013 national book Foundation diploma. It is difficult to think of her in the process, but it was content revealed by Teckel.

"I am a sad pilgrim, I get lost in this vast world, I do not have hope tomorrow, I am trying to make heaven into my house," she sings early, inspiration and work songs I remembered inspiration. It is a girl. She added later that this was inspired by her memoirs: "I am freely singing, this song is very rich and beautiful, I know this is the title."

Angelou talks about her family, especially the grandmother who was wearing "a white big apron rising up to appear stiff" and Willie, the disabled's uncle if not a soul. "He is a very smart person," she recalls. "He read a lot, but because of the physical paralysis and prejudice in the south ... he is a double victim, even if he knows that it suffers a triple injury"

She suggests this recognition to all of us and makes her story not only universal but also at least national.

"Assuming that reconstruction went well, she imagined it was allowed to work," she imagined. "If you look at the United States today, it is the most powerful country on Earth, it has culture.If you are asked to summarize in a few words, I can summarize it The wonderful thing about this country is that reconstruction is useless but let's say it worked right now If you think that all these people are really together and there is no hatred there is no fear there, I am excited too much bitterness Guilt feelings ... When people think of this I am excited The reaction to excitement is a direct frustration I am a country I think is my god "

But she kept saying that she did not have to give in to despair. "I am hoping to overwhelm me from time to time as life in the American black breasts is so wonderful," she said.

"I tried in the book that you could win," she told Tecker in an interview. "I said to the young black children, I told the elderly blacks and women, I'm really talking about people's situation to middle-aged Chinese, white girls."

About the author * Interview and writer's famous Chicago radio, Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was born in Louis Terkel, New York. As a Pulitzer Prize winner, Turkel wrote over 20 books, but his oral history may be the most famous. Robert Akuna talks about research on farm workers, but Telkell left the field two years ago. I have changed the California feudal system (power order) system, changed the lives of farm workers and saw the need for these large companies (companies) to feel they are higher than anyone . I am 34 years old this year, I am trying to organize a united farm worker in the United States.

In 1974, Stud Telkel traveled to the United States to tell workers about what they did all day. When I talked with workers in the North Wales coast of Lewis Island and the Outer Hebrides Islands over the past two years, I wondered how Tecker looked at our current views on our work It was. In 1973, the United States had the highest wage; as the economic historian Robert Brenner showed, the early 1970s could be regarded as the beginning of the long-term recession of the postwar boom. How do we feel when our work is less reliable or more challenging? When I wrote the book "My whole day" I was worried that people were listening like their work: on the one hand, I felt that work was increasingly dangerous It was. You are more respected.