NEW YORK - President Bill Clinton is commenting on the death of 86 year old author and poet Maya Angelou, who he calls a "treasure" and a "friend". Angelou, who was raised by her grandmother near Hope ...

Maya Angelou, then poet in residence at Wake Forest University, talks about the poem she wrote for President Clinton's inauguration from her office in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Sept. 16, 1996.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton remembered poet, orator and sage Maya Angelou as a woman who seemed to have lived five lifetimes in one, with a sweeping experience that ...