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Maya Angelou: ‘I Thought Of Myself As A Giant Ear’

PEOPLE Posted: May 28, 2014 11:53 pm

From a 1986 interview with Terry Gross (in which she sings a mean hymn or two herself): “I thought of myself as a giant ear which could just absorb all sound, and I would go into a room and just eat up the sound. … I would listen to the accents, and I still love the way human beings sound. There is no human voice which is unbeautiful to me.” (audio)

PEOPLE Published: 05.28.14

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