UCLA Film & Television Archive
March 2, 2021
“With all my heart I believe to live life is to dream it first,” wrote Maya Angelou in a column for Essence magazine in 1975 titled “The Woman I Thought I’d Be.” “One is
never too old to make that dream come true to become the woman one
thinks to be.”
That year, Maya Angelou, who died in 2014, would become the first Black woman to join the Directors Guild in the director’s category. To help kickoff Women’s History Month, the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with the Black Feminism Initiative in the UCLA Center for the Study of Women will show “The Tapestry” as part of its on-going Virtual Screening Room on March 4.