Name: Maya Angelou reads "Life Doesnt Frighten Me" by brainpicker in "Omaara Murti-Reform's the Children of Om"
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Her wonderful 1993 children's verses, illustrated by Jean-Michel Basquiat: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/life-doesnt-frighten-me-maya-angelou-basquiat/

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Jan Kuiper: guitar
Zoumana Diarra: guitar, kora, balafon, n'goni
Erwin Java: elektric guitar
Digmon Roovers: guitar-bass
Mousse Pathe M'Baye: percussion
Dramane Diarra: percussion

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Read here by Lyndsey Marshal, '1977 (I am quite sure of this)' is Imtiaz Dharker's contribution to 'Jubilee Lines', a new anthology of sixty poems published to mark the Diamond Jubilee. With a poem for each of the years of the Queen's reign, Jubilee Lines offers both a unique portrayal of the times in which we have lived, and an essential portrait of today. The poems celebrate the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, honour and remember.

1977 | 1977 (I am quite sure of this) by Imtiaz Dharker

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Her wonderful 1993 children's verses, illustrated by Jean-Michel Basquiat: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/life-doesnt-frighten-me-maya-angelou-basquiat/

Maya Angelou reads "Life Doesnt Frighten Me"

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