... Tupac Shakur. Maya Angelou conquer the notion of rebellion from three specific and popular subject positions: that of a woman, a black, and a black woman. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She has been published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her ... changes. I wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living should I blast myself? I"m tired of being poor and even worse I"m black my stomach hurts so I"m looking for a purse to snatch." In this verse he is talking about the poverty...

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... was an unwed mother at 16 years old (Williams 1). In spite of her tragic childhood, she still managed to become one of the greatest black poets of the twentieth century (Williams 1).Angelou is a poet, an author, a historian, an actress, a playwright, a civil-rights activist, a producer, and a director. Ms. Angelou began her career in drama and dance, and she married a South African freedom fighter ... and lived in Cairo. Later she also taught in Ghana. In the 1960's she said that being black, female, non-Muslim, non-Arab, six foot tall, and American ... attention. Maya Angelou has surv...

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Maya the poet, the author, the play-write, actress, mother, civil rights activist, historian, director, producer; Maya the Genius. Maya Angelou is the ultimate Renaissance woman and is one of the great voices of contemporary literature (mayaangelou.com). She ... to her son Guy Bailey Johnson. Throughout my research on Maya, I found many dates and time periods to be conflicting. It was sometime around 1945 that Maya became the first black female conductor for the San Francisco streetcars. Maya had many jobs while living in San Francisco. She was a Creole cook, a tap dancer, and did odd-jobs t...

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