Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is a very intelligent woman, she is a poet, memorist, actress and was very important to the Civil Rights Movement. Maya Angelou was born in 1928. Her childhood was not the best: she was sexually abused and her uncles would beat men to death......
Her most famous works are: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman and All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. One of her famous poems is Alone:

Alone

Lying, thinking

Last night

How to find my soul a home

Where water is not thirsty

And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing

And I don't believe I'm wrong

That nobody, But nobody

Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires

With money they can't use

Their wives run round like banshees

Their children sing the blues

They've got expensive doctors

To cure their hearts of stone.

But nobody No, nobody

Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.
Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know

Storm clouds are gathering

The wind is gonna blow

The race of man is suffering

And I can hear the moan,

'Cause nobody, But nobody

Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone Nobody,

but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

The Bottom Line: Maya Angelou is a smart, poetic woman who should be praised by society today.