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In 1999, Playboy spoke with Maya Angelou. The Playboy Interview never ran. The copy was misfiled and forgotten for 20 years. Now, as we bring this remarkable piece of history online, it serves as a bridge to a voice that remains as vital and urgent as ever.

playboy.comThe Playboy Interview: Maya AngelouRead Maya Angelou's Playboy Interview, written in 1999 but not run in the magazine until 2019.

12/6/26, 3:50 pm218 reposts477 likes

Playboy

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12 June

“You develop courage by doing the small things that take courage. Like not sitting in a room where racial pejoratives are used. Like not sitting in a room where gay people are being bashed. I won’t do it.” Playboy's interview with Maya Angelou.

playboy.comThe Playboy Interview: Maya AngelouRead Maya Angelou's Playboy Interview, written in 1999 but not run in the magazine until 2019.

Ember Babiak (they/them)

@wendybabiak.bsky.social

12 June

I was lucky enough to hear her speak twice, once at my senior celebration in college, and then a year later when she read her gorgeous poem at Clinton’s first inauguration. I stood out in the early morning January cold, and it wasn’t to see the inauguration, but to hear her.

Coming Up Violets! • the art of Amanda Grace

@comingupviolets.bsky.social

14 June

Wow, I guess I am about to ACTUALLY read Playboy for the literature.