She became determined to prove she was a woman and began to rush toward maturity. Angelou soon found herself pregnant at the age of sixteen. Angelou gave birth to a baby boy named Guy. This early life is the focus of Angelou's first autobiographical work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (1970). Subsequent volumes of autobiography include “Gather Together in My Name” (1974), “Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas” (1976), “The Heart of a Woman” (1981), and “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes” (1986)...
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Subsequent volumes of autobiography include “Gather Together in My Name” (1974), “Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas” (1976), “The Heart of a Woman” (1981), and “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes” (1986). During Angelou’s stay in San Francisco she worked intermittently as a cocktail waitress, a prostitute and madam, a cook, and a dancer...
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Maya Angelou Later on in Angelou's life, she read " On the Pulse of Morning" Bill Clinton's inauguration. Angelou has written many poems that she has won many awards for...	2 / 342
Maya Angelou Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried...	1 / 160
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Maya Angelou In the final stanza she tells the reader that now they should understand and be proud of her as well and again she lists personal qualities. Her use of repetition helps to give the poem a flow and make it seem more familiar and lyrical...	2 / 445
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya often wished the she would wake up as her "true self," a beautiful white girl; on page two Angelou writes, "Wouldn't they be surprised when one day I woke out of my ugly black dream, and my real hair, which was long and blonde, would take place of the kinky mass that Momma wouldn't let me straighten?" This quote shows that Ritie never thought herself pretty, and simply ached to be beautiful, to simply fit in...	3 / 634
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