Biography Of Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Maya Angelou's given name was Marguerite Johnson. In her early twenties she was
given the name Maya Angelou after her debut performance as a dancer at the Purple Onion Cabaret. Her father,Bailey Johnson, was a naval dietician, and her
mother's name was Vivian Johnson. She has only one older sibling, a brother named Bailey, who was named after his father.
When Maya was at the age of three her parents divorced so Bailey and Maya had to move in with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Her grandmother
took really good care of them and Maya Angelou claims that her grandmother, whom she called "momma" , had a deep-brooding love that hung over everything she
touched. Growing up in Stamps, Angelou learned what it was like to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites. As a child she always
dreamed of waking to find herself being white because ...