Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people's words attributed to her than words of her own. As we note ...

I am in here; would you look and see? I am fighting against the cancer that has gotten ahold of me. I am in here, would you look, and see? I am more than a diagnosis of sickness and disease. I am in ...

I teach my citizens how to have manners. I am America the beautiful, the land of the dutiful. I work hard and like to have fun, I am battles lost and victories won. I am Army, Navy, Marines and Air ...

As thousands of people mourn Muhammad Ali at his funeral in Louisville, Ky., NPR remembers his 1963 poem, "I Am The Greatest." Thousands of people lined the streets of Louisville, Ky., today to pay ...

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Michael Moore was in for a surprise during the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday when Ashley Judd interrupted him to read a politically charged poem. “I am Ashley Judd,” she declared as Moore ...

In large graven letters on the wall of the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall is a quote from poet Langston Hughes: “I, too, am America.” The ...

Charlie Chaplin was an actor, director, composer, and according to a persistent internet rumor, the author of a poem entitled, "As I Began to Love Myself": As I began to love myself I found that ...