... Matthew 18:20, asking her family to gather around her and bear witness to her past. (Bloom1 199) Although Maya's autobiographies did describe her great struggle from rags to riches, they were not as in depth and good at reflecting her motivation and determination to overcome them like her poetry does ... second section includes Maya's opinions on the lives of black people during slavery and also the oppression of the black culture in the 1960's. The themes of these poems include the rejection and injustice that blacks faced at that time. (Bloom1 209) "'No No No No' is a poem ... or in h...

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