Writings Of Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in California (Lupton 1).
When she was three years old her parents divorced. Her father then put her
and her brother on a segregated train from St. Louis, California, to Stamps,
Arkansas, to live with their grandmother (2). That began the roller
coaster of ....
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.... was not sure of her
identity. She thought she could be a lesbian, so she invited a classmate
of hers to come over and have sex with her. This resulted in pregnancy.
She gave birth to her son, Guy, a month after she graduated from high
school in 1945 (“Maya” 18). When she was growing up, she suffered from
people being racist toward her. For example, when she was younger her
grandmother took her to a white dentist that refused to put his hands in a
black persons mouth (Arensberg 118) ....
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