THE TITLE CAME FROM A PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR POEM.Īfrican-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of Angelou’s favorite writers. "I stay until twelve-thirty or one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe I look at the work around five I have an orderly dinner-proper, quiet, lovely dinner and then I go back to work the next morning," she told The Paris Review. She wrote on yellow legal pads while lying on the bed, sipped sherry, and played Solitaire when she needed a break. “I take a hotel room and ask them to take everything off the walls so there’s me, the Bible, Roget’s Thesaurus and some good, dry sherry, and I’m at work by 6:30,” she said. To get her stories out on paper, Angelou created an elaborate writing ritual. HER WRITING RITUAL INVOLVED A DECK OF CARDS AND A BOTTLE OF SHERRY. When he brought it up, Angelou said, “Absolutely not.” Loomis replied, "It’s just as well, because to write an autobiography as literature is just about impossible.” Angelou, who liked a challenge, said, “I’ll start tomorrow.” 3.
Angelou charmed guests with stories of her childhood the next day, Feiffer’s wife called editor Robert Loomis at Random House and said that he should get Angelou to write a memoir.
In 1968, Baldwin took her to a dinner party at the cartoonist Jules Feiffer’s house. She was also a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, where she became friends with author James Baldwin. By age 40, Angelou had had many careers, working as a journalist, poet, civil rights activist, and singer.
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