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well known writers and people inspired Angelou to write some of her most famous pieces of work, also inspired her to get involved in the civil rights movement. Angelou has many famous works, however she is very well-known for: I know why the Caged Bird Sings. In that autobiography, Angelou pours out the first seventeen years of her life, then writes about her years following in another. Maya Angelou is a well known writer whose work will long be read because it deals with human conditions and…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. Maya grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a female that is a black American American that liked to experience. At a very young age Maya parents had split up. At the age of 7, during a visit with her mother, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Growing up as a teenager Maya had a baby at the age of 16 as a teenage mom that also dropped out of high school. She had a son name Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou…

The Caged Bird and “The Long Walk Home” The caged bird in Richard Pearce’s screenplay, “The Long Walk Home,” is know one because the caged bird will always be locked up and at the end of the screenplay the African Americans end up being free. Although the white people don’t like the concept of African Americans joining in with them, they are going to have to learn how to live a normal life with them. In the middle of the movie Miriam gets scared when Odessa brings up the topic when all the…

People’s Campaign, however; she declined to help until after her birthday on April 4, 1968. His assassination on that very day deeply depressed her, and led to the existence of her seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. King was not the only important activist Angelou was involved with; her efforts also extending to Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid. Her extraordinary life was documented in her writings, which earned critical acclaim and are the…

Many authors write about the people in their lives; they write about their built relationships, and their fallen ones; authors write of inspirational topics such as freedom, death, heaven, slavery. Like such authors, Maya Angelou does so as well, in poem “Alone” she answers the trivial question of where one's soul resides. Maya Angelou’s poem “Alone” embodies the concept of being discontent, pretense and need. This poem demonstrates that those who lack friendships and love tend to feel lonely…

multitalented person. She wrote poetry and books, had parts in movies, plays, and television shows, and even had a weekly radio show. After living abroad in the 1960’s, Angelou returned to the United States to write her first memoir I Know Why The Caged Bird…

friend, and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou was a prominent and undoubtedly successful figure throughout the second half of the twentieth century. With many successes throughout her lifetime, Angelou is known for her poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as well as her contributions to the Civil Rights movement. However, many events and people contributed to Angelou’s works and art style. Commonly labeled as a “Renaissance Woman,” Maya Angelou conquered and achieved much in literature, art,…

American business man, Howard Schultz, once said, “In times of adversity and change, we discover who we are and what we’re made of.” In the novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Maya experiences many different forms of adversity. Maya was a very troubled as a child due to her abandonment problems, being placed in unsafe environments, and a problem of reliance on her older brother, Bailey. In the novel, Maya and Bailey are sent from their parents to live with their grandmother…

Response Essay: "Song of the Humming Bird" by Graciela Limon Huitzitzilin; the name of the story’s protagonist and a word in the Nahuatl language that means Hummingbird. The book, Song of the Humming Bird, written by Graciela Limon was published in the year of 1996 and was accepted by the public as a sympathy opening story. In this book, we read about an elderly woman who lives in a convent in Mexico City in 1853 after living through the Spanish invasion over the Aztecs. She speaks to a new…

Aja Monet is a writer and performance poet. Monet is of Cuban American descent and focuses on activism through her poetry. Monet is an advocate of the Say Her Name Campaign, a project devoted to eliminating police brutality, and she also works on community organizing with The Community Justice Project and The Dream Defenders. Monet's VICE interview titled Aja Monet is not OK with your Apathy is revealing and compelling. In it she shares her early love of writing and poetry. She says “I started…