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Three Books To Quell Your Quarter-Life Crisis

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December 23, 2010 As recent college grads, everything seems possible ... but nothing feels certain. Hannah Levintova recommends three works that will help pull you out of your twentysomething rut.

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Maya Angelou's Cooking Advice: Ignore The Rules

To enjoy meals, slow down and ignore the rules, says poet Maya Angelou. Here, she celebrates her 82nd birthday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C.

December 16, 2010 In her new cookbook, the poet says too much rushing around and too many rules are crushing the practice of good cooking. Eating good food, she says, should be a time to enlighten the spirit.

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Maya Angelou on Wisdom, Pride and Independence

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July 4, 2007 Bestselling author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is considered to be among the greatest writers alive today. In this week's Wisdom Watch, Angelou talks — and sings — about why she feels proud to be an American woman of color. Her latest book is A Song Flung Up to Heaven, the final volume of her memoirs.

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'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou

Detail from the cover of Maya Angelou's cookbook/memoir, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table'

October 26, 2005 Author and poet Maya Angelou talks about her latest work, a book of recipes and recollections she's put together that combine her love of cooking and good food with her deeper love of the people she shares her table with.

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