Maya Angelou and Alice Walker are both well-known African American authors. They both were awarded for having some of the best non-fictional and fictional texts on what it is like to be black in the United States. Both Angelou and Walker were inspirational civil rights activists but what made them different was their styles in writing, ways of expressing topics or situations, and each very unique.
Maya Angelou was a strong writer, actor, and a great poet. In fact she was the writer, director, and producer of plays and some movies. Angelou was known best because of her autobiographies. She wrote about her life experiences as a child and early adulthood. Angelou became a well-known poet and writer after her first series of autobiographies on …show more content…
I discovered and Angelou in high school after watching her performance in the Tyler Perry movie “Family reunion”. I soon and discovered Walker and Angelou are very similar but Walker is not as experienced as Angelou. Angelou would be more of an educating icon to other blacks, her autobiographies give you a detailed view on what it was like to live life as a black person in the early 60s. Angelou also is the one who help King with the march of blacks. Walker is very educated on the history of the blacks but she did not live in the era in which Angelou did so she speaks from what she has learned and studied instead of what she has experienced. Walkers best work was her book and now movie “The color purple” which was very eye opening to the lives of blacks in the south.
Maya Angelou is and icon to the black communities even after her death in 2014. Angelou’s poems are still used as a living and way for many people around the world, her books are still used as educational books in schools and libraries. Alice walker is well known for her books and her participation in activism, helping the children’s programs and registration drives. Both Angelou and walker are great authors and are highly respected, depending on your perspective you may find that one is better than the other or as I see, Angelou as the more iconic
Maya Angelou was a strong writer, actor, and a great poet. In fact she was the writer, director, and producer of plays and some movies. Angelou was known best because of her autobiographies. She wrote about her life experiences as a child and early adulthood. Angelou became a well-known poet and writer after her first series of autobiographies on …show more content…
I discovered and Angelou in high school after watching her performance in the Tyler Perry movie “Family reunion”. I soon and discovered Walker and Angelou are very similar but Walker is not as experienced as Angelou. Angelou would be more of an educating icon to other blacks, her autobiographies give you a detailed view on what it was like to live life as a black person in the early 60s. Angelou also is the one who help King with the march of blacks. Walker is very educated on the history of the blacks but she did not live in the era in which Angelou did so she speaks from what she has learned and studied instead of what she has experienced. Walkers best work was her book and now movie “The color purple” which was very eye opening to the lives of blacks in the south.
Maya Angelou is and icon to the black communities even after her death in 2014. Angelou’s poems are still used as a living and way for many people around the world, her books are still used as educational books in schools and libraries. Alice walker is well known for her books and her participation in activism, helping the children’s programs and registration drives. Both Angelou and walker are great authors and are highly respected, depending on your perspective you may find that one is better than the other or as I see, Angelou as the more iconic