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Maya was born in St.Louis Missouri.
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Maya's parents got divorced when she was just 3 years old.
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Maya decided to back in with her mother so thats what her and her brother did
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Maya was sexually abussed by her mothers boyfriend and decided to move back with her grandmother once again.
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Maya publishes her first Biography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" which explains her chilhood.
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Maya moves back with her mother but only this time in San Francisco where she is now attending high school.
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they are in deep concern for their uncles safety and warned by another black man that another black man earlier today went off on a white women and now white men are goign out for revenge
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Bertha Flowers was one of mayas teachers in high school that coaxed maay into speaking again. After a few months she started talking, she dropped out of high school and worked as a cable car conductor
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Maya returned backk to high school pregnant and gaev birth to a boy that she named Clyde. whilein highschool she worked a a cook and waitress.
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bailey is traumatized after he finds a dead black man in the white part of town. He claims that its been there for a while becasue it smells rotten
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a black man wins the world championship fighting fo rthe first time. Maya feels not only did he prove that the black can win but also that they are the most powerful
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Bailey becoms aquainted with a girl names joyce. Soon they start to like each other, she is considered baileys first love
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after mayas stab wound she goes and lives on the street 1 month. she didn't tell anyone where she was or where she was going
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Maya finally decides to get maried to a greek sailor. Her new husbands name was Tosh Angelos
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The first poem Maya has written was "Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water, 'Fore I Diie". It was featured in a famous play called "Cabaret Freedom"
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maya decides she wants a boyfriend but when she realizes nobody wants her she has sex with a boy down teh street and she later on finds out shes pregnant
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maya goes out and tries to find a job when at the same time nobody believes she can do it and at this point shes very determined to prove them wrong.
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after living on the street for one month, Maya decides to move back home with Bailey and her mother
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Maya and Delores get into a fight after her and her father return from mexico. Delores stabs her in the side out of rage
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WW2 begins and Maya sees a change in the San Francisco society and town
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Maya has her new born son and begins her life fresh and as a new mother.