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Maya explains how anyone can overcome there dreadful times if they just put there mind to it and an example was when she overcame Her family friend molesting her (Angelou)

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A example of Maya overcoming something was when she explained that she was the first African American female street car conductor (Angelou)

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Maya never thought that her life would come to this because it was so crazy to what her life has become when she was 17 she had a kid.(Angelou)

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Maya explains how she never wanted to right the book, He told me to right it and I never thought I would do it (Angelou)

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Maya Angelou had a horrific experience at the dentist when he says he would never put his hand in a niggers mouth (Angelou)

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The devastation from mayas passing was through the roof, she was a leader and an amazing person, nobody wanted to forget about her. "Her words and her spirit are too powerful to leave this earth with her passing. (Littleton)

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Not only was Maya smart and intelligent she had courage to stand what she believed in, "Through her 86 years, she personified resilience, wisdom and intelligence. She had the courage to confront issues of identity, family and race". (Littleton)

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Maya Angelou was so important to many peoples lives, because of the impact she left especially for Tyler Perry, "There have been a handful of people in my life who have moved me, inspired me, encouraged me, and helped mold the man I am today, one of those people would be Dr. Maya Angelou" (Littleton)

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Maya's main audience was African American's the very famous bet network talked about her, saying how amazing she was and what an inspiration she is and how her story will live forever. "Her light will always shine through her extraordinary contributions to the arts and to the very fabric of American culture." (Littleton)

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Maya was an inspiration to many people but a couple of them that are talked about are, "her larger contribution was in serving as an inspiration and mentor to key industry figures including Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Arsenio hall." (Littleton)

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Even though Maya Angelou wrote her story I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1960, it wasn't till the late 80's that other African American women started to get noticed. "Some of her friends were convinced that Angelou should write about her childhood after they heard her stories about growing up in stamps Arkansas" (Sickels 20)

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Powerful autobiographies of African Americans in the early 1900's were the new best thing. They told the stories of many peoples lives and are all related to and brought back to the story of Maya Angelou "Autobiographies continued to be an important form for African American writers throughout the 1950's and 1960's: such as works as Baldwins Notes of a Native son, Anne Moody's coming of age in Mississippi, and the autobiography of Malcom X". (Sickley 25)

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Angelous story was heard all around the world and during the 60's she was a very big deal in the African American community. "At the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she became the Northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership conference." (Wheatley 27)

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Many people don't understand how Maya fit into the civil rights movement as just an author of her own autobiography, "Angelou published Caged Bird during a critical decade for African American literature, as it began to gain a wider readership, and for the first time, to be defined as a genre and recognized as a crucial part of the larger category of American Literature." (Wheatley 27)

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The power of Angelous stories needed to be heard by everyone in the world so many people tried and tried to get her to write her autobiography but at first she would not. "Some of her friends were convinced that Angelou should write about her childhood after they heard her stories about growing up in stamps Arkansas" (Sickels 20)

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Phillis being an African American women in the times of slavery and hate towards that single race, she was one of the people that helped persuade white men to abolish slavery, "she worked tirelessly, writing such elite Americans as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to encourage them to abolish slavery". (Wheatley 5)

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Reasons Maya followed and looked up to such a brave women was for many reasons such as, "Wheatley a great personal risk, took the initiative to write and publish her own truth--that all people are free and are entitled to an education that allows freedom of expression". (Mickley 5)

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Phillis Wheatley was a big part of the United States at this time she was followed by not only African Americans but also others that lived in the United States. She was not only trying to advocate rights and equality for black people but for everyone, "Wheatley was an advocate for equal opportunity and for freedom of all Americans to live and express themselves" (Wheatley 5)

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Many men and women looked up to Maya Angelou for her kind and brave soul. So people wonder who did Maya look up to in her life to get to the point where she was at. One black women named Harriet Jacobs was one person Maya looked up to , "That distinction goes to Harriet Jacobs, whose slave narritave, incidents in the life of. a slave girl (1861), details the psychological trauma of being a desirably and enslaved black girl." (Wheatley 5)

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Maya Angelou had many literary influences to help her get the courage to write a story of her own about what really was happening in those times in a little girls perspective. One of her greatest influences was "Paul Laurence Dubnar's poem "Sympathy" from which she drew the title of her first autobiography". (Wheatley 6)

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People stories give power to others and if they were never wrote nobody would no about them or try to fix the cause (representation)