Maya Angelou

Most people don’t know about Maya Angelou.You probably don’t know about anything about her, where she was born, what she did in her life and what impact she has on us.

Maya Angelou was born 1928 in St. Louis; her birth name is Marguerite Johnson. She was sent to live with her grandmother in a town in Arkansas after her parent’s marriage ended. She was an actress and singer she had toured in Europe in a production of Porgy and Bess, a folk opera about life on the Charleston Waterfront. When she was finished teaching dance in Paris and Tel Aviv, she returned to Untied States for the Civil Rights Movement. For a moment in her life she lived in Cairo and Ghana to write for the newspaper. Maya Angelou is known for her autobiographies, but she has also written poetry, screenplays, magazines articles and a ten part television series for National Education Television, dealing with Africanize in Untied States culture. In 1982 Maya received a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston- Salem, North Carolina.

Maya Angelou is a good person. She is a major impact on a lot of people today. She is also an important person in my life and others as well. Maya can help people in a lot of ways, she can inspire a lot of people write, dance and to be an actor and or actress.

So what do you think about Maya Angelou and her life? Do you think she can play a role in your life or anybody else?