Her mother taught her about the Christian principles of love, respect, independence and courage. ... (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. ... The book was banned in many schools during that time since Maya Angelou was really open up about sexually abused subject. ... Maya Angelou's I Am A Christian confessedly showed her faith in God and his love by words: " When I say ... "I am a Christian"/ I'm not claiming to be perfect/ My fla...

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Each character in Beloved is a former slave with a painful and scaring past. ... For example, in Chapter 6, Beloved gets Sethe to talk about the death of her mother, something she has tried to forget. ... This is similar to "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" because they so desperately want to fit in to American culture they forget about their Spanish heritage and they can't figure out who they are supposed to be. ... In "I know why the Caged Bird sings", Maya Angelou goes through something similar. ... Paul D is very insecure about whether or not he could possibly be a r...

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Without much attention, and her inability to talk about her sexual abuse, Oprah started acting out by skipping school, stealing money from her mother, and dating which forced he mother to send her back to  where she stayed with her father in Nashville at the age of fourteen, which was when she realized she was pregnant. ... At the age of 16, Oprah read Mary Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" over and over, later quoted saying ,"I read it over and over; I had never before read a book that validated my existence....

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