Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

By Maya Angelou

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Maya Angelou's first collection of poems (1971), on love, race and resilience, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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• Hillary Clinton: “Maya Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" on the occasion of Bill's first inauguration... she reinvented herself through reading”