Maya Angelou
Born: April 4,1928
St.Louis, Missouri
By:Ta'Niya Taylor

Childhood
Her father(Bailey Johnson) was a doorman and a navy dietitian and her mother(Vivian) was a nurse and a car dealer maya had one brother (Bailey Jr.). She had a very tough childhood she was raped by her mothers boyfriends when she was younger and when she told her mother he was sent to jail for one day when he was released he was killed it was believed that her uncles killed him.

Education
She went to George Washington High School
Then she went to California Labor school where she got a scholarship to study dance and drama.

Literacy Contributions

• I Know Why The Caged Birds Sings
• Still I Rise
• The Heart Of A Woman
• Mom And Me And Mom

AWARDS

• Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry(2014)
• Coretta Scoot King Award For Authors(1971)

Personal Reflection
In her poems she used her experience and emotions from her childhood and would put it in a poem

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
R.I.P
May 28,2014