Maya Angelou: A True Hero

A hero is not someone that saves the world in matter of seconds, or has a non human superpower like the ability to fly or be invisible. A true hero is someone that does something without expecting anything in return, always being kind, genuine and stands for what they believe in no matter the circumstance. Maya Angelou is looked as a hero around not only America but the whole world for being a poet, activist, and going from nothing to something and using that experience to help many people.
Maya Angelou believed that by her poetic skills she could change the world and the people. As seen in the Great Black Heroes website Angelou talks about how traveling had a great impact on her writing/poetic skills. “Angelou’s experiences around other parts of the world would also heavily influence her writing”. Maya Angelou had many opportunities to travel the world and experience different cultures, with everything she has learned and seen she decided to put into writing. Those experiences really impacted her and she began to …show more content…
As it was stated in the website biography.com people that were in Maya Angelou’s life knew that her story needed to be shared. Friend and fellow writer James Baldwin urged Angelou to write about her life experiences, resulting in the enormously successful 1969 memoir about her childhood and young adult years. Many people that knew Maya Angelou, understood that she had a powerful story that needed to be shared with the world. She had been through so much through her childhood and young adult years, that people like James Baldwin knew she needed to tell people what she’s been through by writing about her experiences. This definitely shows that she is a hero because even though Maya’s younger years were not the best and she definitely struggled, she never gave up and was not afraid to share her story. A second way Maya Angelou is shown to be a hero is by the way she was involved and helped the civil rights movement and by being a strong