Maya Angelou was her professional name when she started her career as nightclub singer. ... Maya Angelou's grandmother, Annie Henderson, along with her Uncle Willie, raised her in Stamps Arkansas. ... I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of each other. ... (Angelou Caged Bird 153) Maya knew this and made it clear in her writing (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1). ... The book that she was working on was called "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings....

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• Grade Level: High School

Flowers she had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest of weather she acted just as refined as the white folks," (Angelou, Caged Bird 76-78). ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of the five volume series, published in 1970. ... Angelou also took up acting. ... I can go on writing about Maya and her life experiences for pages on end. ... Maya Angelou, the poetic, literary genius. ...

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Marguerita Johnson, whose pen name is Maya Angelou, was born in St. ... (Angelou, 7). ... Maya's first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "opens with a primal childhood scene that brings into focus the nature of the imprisoning environment from which the self will seek escape. ... I think that Maya is an extremely talented author. ... Maya Angelou is a very talented woman. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Maya Angelou and her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Dr. ... Holden shows this by saying, "If there's one word I hate, it's grand. ... In Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the American Dream is being able to find oneself and what makes each person happy, in spite of the obstacles that try to stop them. ... Maya Angelou believed that nothing was more important than achieving happiness. ... For Holden Caulfield, that means straying from the phony social norms, for Maya Angelou it meant purs...

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At the age of three, Maya Angelou's parents were separated. ... Maya Angelou tried to make a living for both herself and her son. ... (King, 1994) Maya Angelou wrote her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a memoir of her childhood and young adult period, in 1969, toward the end of the Civil Right Movement. ... Maya Angelou's I Am A Christian confessedly showed her faith in God and his love by words: " When I say ... ... Maya Angelou became one of the most influential women in American history....

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School