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Born to a decaying marriage and unstable household, Maya Angelou thrills her poetic intentions through her dominant and eloquent words. Maya Angelou, center of mysterious and descendants of the broken, like a champion, she rose out of the ashes and into the lights of the stage. An American author and artist who has been called “America’s most visible black female autobiographer” by dozens of people, has made remarkable recognitions all around the word. She is best known for her sequence of six autobiographical stories, focusing on her childhood and early adulthood. Her writing, through the eyes and experiences of a black woman, can lend a structure to the study of racial relations and culture in the 20th century America. Angelou’s work is then, a presentation of the life of a black woman who has lived in the South and in the urban North, who has lived in Africa, and has traveled Europe. She has gone through poverty and despair and she has been granted high honors. Her work is the expression of those experiences and sensations through the eyes of a black woman. Due to specific events in Maya Angelou’s life, her style of writing was exceedingly pretentious.
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Ann Johnson. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Bailey Johnston, Sr., a door attendant and Vivian Baxter Johnston, a car dealer in a local gambling parlor. Marguerite’s only brother Bailey was a year older. He gave Marguerite her nickname when he could not pronounce her name and called her ‘my sister’ or ‘my-a-sister’. The nicknamed was shortened to Maya. Although Bailey called Marguerite ‘Maya’, she went by the name Marguerite Johnson or Rita until she hit adulthood. In 1949, she changed her name to Maya Angelou ...

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... go for the extra mile and has sacrifice many things, but still rises above.

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