Have you ever felt sad or scared and you needed someone to encourage you? Well, you should take a look at some of Maya Angelou’s famous poems.
Maya Angelou is a poet; she wrote poetry. She is known for her unique writing style. She wrote a lot of inspirational and thoughtful poems. She was born on April 4, 1928 and died on May 28, 2014. She was born in Saint Louis. When Maya Angelou was eight, she got attacked by her mother’s boyfriend. That is when Maya Angelou stopped talking for 5 years. Maya Angelou had a disease called Selective Mutism. It is an anxiety disorder that can cause you to not speak due to physiological trauma that they could come across.
Maya Angelou’s book called “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings “ was an instant hit and was her first best seller. Maya Angelou was also the first, black woman to conduct a cable car in San Francisco. Maya Angelou spoke five different languages which were English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and West African Fanti.
Maya was a civil rights leader how fought for Social Racial justice. Maya Angelou’s most famous quote is “Do the best you can until you know better; then, when you know better, do better”. My personal favorite poem from Maya Angelou is her “I am a woman, phenomenally, phenomenal woman, that’s me” poem.
Maya Angelou married three times to different people. Those people were Tosh Angelos, Vusumzi L., and Paul de Fe. She only had one son and his name was Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou made a cook book; her cook book came out in 2010.
Her parents were Vivian Baxter Johnson and Bailey Johnson. Her parents divorced when she was only three years old.
Maya Angelou was great woman or as she said a phenomenal woman.