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"born Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, MO; died May 28, 2014, in Winston-Salem, NC; daughter of Bailey (a doorman and naval dietician) and Vivian (a registered nurse, professional gambler, and rooming house and bar owner) Johnson; married Tosh Angelos, 1950 (divorced, 1952); married Paul Du Feu, December, 1973 (divorced, 1981); children: Guy." (Contemporary Authors Online).

Maya (Marguerite) Angelou was born on April 4, in St. Louis MO and died on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem NC. She married and divorced twice and had one child, a boy named Guy (Contemporary Authors Online).

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“Yet instead of letting forces beyond her control overcome her, Angelou began to forge art from her early experiences and to change the world as she'd once known it ... She became known, as Annie Gottlieb wrote in the  New York Times Book Review,  as a person who "writes like a song, and like the truth. The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own,” (Contemporary Authors Online).

Maya Angelou used her art to make a statement in the world. She was known as a woman who wrote the truth and used her knowledge of many different cultures to tell a story (Contemporary Authors Online).

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The quote was too large to put into a notecard. It was a large list of every work Maya Angelou has ever created.

In her lifetime, Maya Angelou wrote seven autobiographies, thirteen books of poetry, six essays, ten children’s picture books, five film/television scripts, participated in ten recordings, and done four other various collaborative works (Contemporary Authors Online).

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"Life in St. Louis was different from that in Stamps; Angelou was unprepared for the rushing noises of city life and the Saturday night parties. Then, when she was just seven and a half years old, something terrible happened. In one of the most evocative (and controversial) moments in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou described how she was first lovingly cuddled, then raped by her mother's boyfriend. When the man was murdered by her uncles for his crime, Angelou felt responsible, and she stopped talking. She and her brother were sent back to Stamps. Angelou remained mute for five years, but she developed a love for language and the spoken word," (Contemporary Authors Online).

This is a very important quote because it shows how drastically impacted Maya Angelou was from being raped. She did not speak for five years because she felt like she was responsible for what happened to her. She moved back and forth between two very different places, and as a child needing stability for their mental wellbeing, this was not a healthy thing (Contemporary Authors Online).

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"Angelou prepared for the rest of her life by attending George Washington High School and by taking lessons in dance and drama on a scholarship at the California Labor School. When Angelou, just seventeen, graduated from high school and gave birth to a son, she began to work as well," (Contemporary Authors Online).

The intelligence Maya Angelou possessed at such a young age allowed her to go to high school on a scholarship and graduate at seventeen years old. She gave birth soon after and worked full time, showing her dedication to not only herself, but her new family (Contemporary Authors Online).

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"Since the publication of the first volume of her serial autobiography in 1970, Maya Angelou has frequently spoken out about the profound effects of childhood sexual trauma and her lifelong struggle to heal the shattered self through autobiographical acts of narrative reformulation," (Henke).

Maya Angelou used her autobiographical writings, like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, to help herself heal from being raped at such a young age (Henke).

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"Ritie's own uncanny experiences in St. Louis border on the unspeakable. Childhood sexual abuse takes the form of molestation, then rape, by her mother's frustrated and demented boyfriend, Mr. Freeman, whose confusing attentions initially mimic paternal expressions of physical affection," (Henke).

Maya did not have a good experience living with her mother in St. Louis. Her mother's boyfriend raped her, making her feel confused sexually and mentally on "what is love?" She blamed herself for the rape instead of blaming her mother's boyfriend (Henke).

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"Angelou's early years were dominated by the pain of mother-absence, a source of bereavement that made her 'so highly sensitive as to be paranoid'," (Henke).

This quote is extremely important because her mother did not want to be in her life. As a child, knowing this was traumatizing and made her question herself and her self worth all the time. Henke writes that it's the reason Maya was so highly sensitive as a child and throughout her life (Henke).

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Quote - Real Perspective on her LIfe in the South

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Quote - Real Perspective on her LIfe in the South

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"Bundled up and sent south by train at the age of three, Marguerite felt, along with her brother Bailey, a beleaguered sense of emotional abandonment. How could her parents laugh and eat oranges in a paradise called "sunny California" while their children suffered the disciplinarian wrath of Uncle Willie, a crippled avuncular pedagogue teaching mathematics by the coal-stove method, and a loving but cantankerous grandmother," (Henke).

This quote reveals how Maya Angelou truly felt about being packed up and moved at age three to the residence of her disabled uncle and strict grandmother. She thought they were below her parents. This is an interesting perspective to read because in her autobiography she writes very highly of her grandmother and how much she loved to rather live in Stamps than any location her parents inhabited (Henke),

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This quote was too long to insert into a notecard. It was a list of all the awards Maya Angelou accepted and received throughout her lifetime.

Maya Angelou's awards take up over two pages