'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'

For years, Maya Angelou was merely the poet laureate of the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Her name was so exotic and she was brainy and yet so grandmotherly.

She was a writer, right?

Suddenly she's not so popular to the housewives of the world and we all realize that she did indeed write and a book and she was so brutally honest and good.

What a rich life she's led, with or without Oprah.