When the novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"" by Maya Angelou is read, a door is opened to a world that most try to forget. ... She writes concisely about life's little secrets. ... I take it as a boast of sorts, "Look how far blacks have come; look at what they have accomplished, and they haven't even begun to put up a fight. ... When Maya describes the speech given at her graduation, when the teacher says that some graduates have been able to become athletes, Maya is angered, but is smart enough to know that this was the typical assumption of even blacks: A black person...

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• Grade Level: High School