Maya Angelou’s childhood in the South and the conflicts that came with being black were the basis for her autobiographies such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Through her rich, insightful literature she is able to record the black experience and ultimately the black struggle. She “was always talking about the human condition, about what we can endure, dream fail at and still survive.”(Matzu 23) Angelou’s early life was full of hardships but with compromise and hard work came success and she was able to become one of the most influential women of all time.
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