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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know ...
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1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie. Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Since 1991, she has
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Aug 23, 2010 · Publisher. New York : N.Y. : Bantam. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie -- Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well -- And still I rise.
Maya Angelou. on Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie. Producer. RoccStar. One thing that I liked about this poem was was the last two lines to the poem. It was a...
Yet Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie, which was published in 1971, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972. According to Carol Neubauer in Southern Women Writers, “the first twenty poems describe the whole gamut of love, from the first moment of passionate discovery to the first suspicion of painful loss.”
Sep 28, 2012 · Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie. by. Maya Angelou. Publication date. 1997. Publisher. Random House. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 6,225 reviews 49 followers. June 28, 2014. May Angelou's "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" is a collection of her abstract poetry addressing oppression of blacks and sexual exploitation. Courageous, creative, raw, honest and searing.
