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-She was the First Black Woman to Conduct A Cable Car in San Fransisco (U.S.A)

-She Spoke Six languages

-She didn’t Speak For Five Years in her Youth

-She Wrote and Directed Several Movies

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The poem draws the comparison between the free bird and the caged bird to show what kind of life the caged bird is actually meant to live. Though the caged bird is trapped, the poem shares a message of resilience, as the bird has not given up. The singing of the bird is the only act of agency it has left.

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Maya Angelou’s Place of birth and Place of Death

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Maya Angelou’s Place of birth and Place of Death

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Maya Angelou was born in Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri (U.S.A), and died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (U.S.A)

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‘I know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Published 1969

‘And I Still Rise‘ Published 1978

‘Phenomenal Woman’ Published 1995

‘The Heart of a Woman’ Published 1981

‘Letter to My Daughter’ Published 2008

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‘If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude’

‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you’

‘Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccesible

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9 Family Members
Son: Guy Johnson
Former husband: Enistasious Tosh Angelos & Paul de Feu
Brother: Bailey Johnson Jr.
Mother: Vivian Baxter Johnson
Father: Bailey Johnson
Unknown: Vusumzi Make
2 Grandsons

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-Presidential Medal of Freedom (2010)
-Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (1994, 1996, 2003)
-Spingarn Medal (1994)
-NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (2005, 2009)
-Langston Hughes Medal (1991)
-Marian Anderson Award (2008)
-NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry (2007)
-Quill Award for Poetry (2006)
-The BET Honors Award for Literary Arts (2012)
-Glamour Award for The Poet (2009)
-Women in Film Crystal Award (1992)

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Had divorced parents when she was 3 and was molested (mother’s boyfriend Freeman) around the age of 7 by gross ass biss

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Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist who wrote three books of essays and several books of poetry

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African American

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Birth: 4th April 1928
Death: 28th 2014