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Maya Angelou Research Paper

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“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”. Once said Maya Angelou, a poet, author, screenwriter, actress and and a civil rights activist who wrote poems intelligently and always with a gaping reason deeply within them, which made them rather fascinating. As we look back on Maya Angelou’s life, she had an incredible journey, fighting discriminations and harsh circumstances during her youth, she is truly an astonishing person who is worth of to be spoken as an important poet in history and one of the greatest in the poetic world.
Maya grew up in harsh circumstances, her young father and mother decided to go separate ways at a very young age, leaving Maya and her brother, Bailey, were forced to live with their grandma on their father’s side. During her youth at age 7, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Thus, as vengeance, Maya’s uncles took the boyfriend’s life. Maya was traumatized by the experience and went into an age of silence, she moved back to Arkansas and spent years without talking. At the time of world war 2, she moved to San Francisco …show more content…

This led her to release her first album “Miss Calypso”. In 1961, Maya appeared in another off-broadway production called “The Blacks” with James Earl Jones, Lou Gossett Jr and Cicely Tyson. The play was a success and Maya was able to move abroad in the 1960s, in countries like Egypt and Ghana as a freelance writer and and as an editor. When she returned to the United States, Maya was encouraged by James Baldwin to write about her life experiences. This ended up with Maya releasing her memoir in 1969 about her childhood and her young adult years, it had the name “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and it became extremely successful as well it became the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American

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