Maya Angelou Essay Examples and Research Papers

​On the pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou is a piece of literature intended to speak about the way people before us have created a place that we now live on, use and take for granted. Our ancestors planted the trees that give us oxygen and life and we do not give them a second…

Maya Angelou is the best writer in the world. Maya Angelou lives in San Francisco, California. She has always dreamed of being a street conductor on one of the city street cars! But she was disappointed when her mom told her “ Honey they do not allow colored people on the city street cars”. That…

In exploring the school namely “Women Resisting Convention”, It is evident that there are many ways in which the poets differ and speak without fear. With that being said, Nicole Alyssia’s Enter At Your Own Discretion gives the impression of being “cut from a different cloth” which is a stylistic approach that has been thought…

Maya Angelou wrote Still I Rise in 1978, In which a lot of racism was going on at this time towards African Americans in the late 70’s but early 80’s. Angelou lived through some of the worst oppression and inequality for African American people while growing up. Angelou saw its effects on society and the…

I would like to initiate my response paper by expressing personal gratitude to Dr. Maya Angelou in her ‘Love Liberates’ video presentation. Dr. Angelou offers great advice about the power of love and becoming who you are meant to be. The thought of loving freely, without ego or selfish expectations, is admirable yet challenging to…

Within the poem, “Still I Rise” written by Maya Angelou, the poet targets powerful tyrants in a society that have neglected and mistreated her and countless African-Americans throughout history. First, Angelou states these light-skinned oppressors with wealth and status, make the final decisions on what will be included and what will be forgotten within the…

I will be doing my poetry explication on “Still I Rise“ by Maya Angelou. Still I rise was published in the year of 1978. This is a poem that is often described as powerful, and empowering. It talks about the difficulties on overcoming prejudice and injustice. This is one of Maya angelou’s most popular poems….

Dear Maya Angelou, What an inspiration you are to me and not only to me , but to other young females as well. I must say that you are one of my favorite authors. You write  your poems with so much passion and feelings that I sometimes can’t even describe. I feel your pain in…

In the article “Mom and Me and Mom” and the video “Learning to Love my Mother” shows a mother daughter relationship that has both its ups and downs. Maya Angelou went from feeling abandoned to feeling loved by her mother. The video and the article are similar by the way they each portray Maya Angelou’s…