Maya Angelou started writing in 1968 after Martin Luther kings assassination by the encouragement of her friend James Baldwin..
He helped her write the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou started to write poems after a women down the street from Maya's grandmother's house asked her to read books and recite the books in a poem. When she moved back to Stamps, Arkansas with her grandmother, a woman down the street, named Mrs.Flowers, tried to get her to talk, Maya wouldn't talk. So, Mrs.Flowers gave Maya some books and asked her to come back the next day to recite the books in a poem. Maya came back the next day with her poems and told Mrs. Flowers that she didn't really understand the books but she still did the assignment anyways. From then own, Maya started writing and reciting her own poems.
In 2010 Maya Angelou will be 82 years old.
Maya Angelou was only three years old when her parents split up. This event had a significant impact on her childhood and influenced much of her writing and perspectives on family dynamics.
Maya Angelou was 86 years old when she died on May 28, 2014. (born April 4, 1928)
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Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928
She is 80 years old
She will be 84 in 2012.:]
Maya Angelou is alive. She is 82 years old, according to 2010. She was born on April 4th, 1928.
"Woman Work" by Maya Angelou, "When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angel also by Maya Angelou.
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Maya Angelou died on May 28, 2014 at the age of 86.
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