Maya Angelou
"His tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom, that was a line from the very famous, Caged Bird." Marguerite Johnson was born in a segregated area of St. Louis, Arkansas on April 4, 1928 After her parent's divorce she and her brother, Bailey were sent to go live with their grandmother, Annie. Annie made sure that the family went to church on a regular basis. Marguerite and Bailey had a close relationship as children and Bailey was the person that gave Marguerite the name of "Maya".
On a visit to her mother's, Angelou was raped at age seven by her mother's boyfriend. Angelou was very ashamed about this event and did not want to talk about it. One day her mother's brother found out and he went and killed the man who raped Angelou. After Angelou found out that her uncle killed the man, she did not want to talk, and she just became withdrawn.
Later on in her life, she started reading work by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and......
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