Maya Angelou was an African American woman who blended her influential voice in her poems correspondingly to sustain her powerful independent identity as a black woman. She is one of the most effective feminist writers who exhibited her consciousness and awareness of the racial power of American society. Maya grew up in a time when education for women was a privilege, and women suffered from utmost patriarchal setbacks, but because of her intelligence, she managed to secure a scholarship to study dance and drama. She grew up with the zeal to fight against the ill-treatment of women in society, hence her use of poems in delivering her messages. Maya Angelou was one of the female writers who used feministic approaches in their work. In her poems, Maya Angelou expressed about women during racial discrimination, segregation, and male domination.
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