I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Can you imagine a young, youthful and vibrant Maya Angelou? Honestly, the renowned poet, author and activist running around on dirt roads, bathing outside with water from a well, living in a tiny town in Arkansas? I couldn’t until I started reading her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In her autobiography Angelou reveals information about her youth from being sent on a train with her brother to Arkansas when they were three and four as their parents divorced, to being pregnant and delivering her first child. It all starts in the 1920’s and the racial tension was painfully obvious between blacks and whites. Momma, Maya’s grandmother, owned the only Negro general store in town and it was the social hub of the community. It was here Maya, born Marguerite Johnson, and her brother Bailey Junior would learn many of their lessons about life and what it meant to be black in this world. Both were intellige