In addition to writing, Maya Angelou was a dancer who studied with Martha Graham and Pearl Primus. She acted onstage, in films, and on television in such works as Roots (1977), Poetic Justice (1993), and How to Make an American Quilt (1995). In 1981 Angelou became a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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