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Poems are words expressing what is inside us. It is also well known that the environment around us affects the way we view things, and it is the factor that pushes us to act and rebel in a certain way.
In my research about this topic I came upon many names and characters that were shaped environment. Two of these are Maya Angelou and 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 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Maya was born in St. Louis and raised in a segregated rural Arkansas.
Her poetry is full of experience her childhood and adolescence years back in Arkansa...

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