Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson. She is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Maya is a great autobiography writer, poet and writer of plays. She is also a producer, director, actor, performer, and singer. She spent her babyhood in California, however, after her parents divorced Maya and her brother went to live with their mother in Stamps, Arkansas. For a short period of time when Maya was eight, she went to …showed first 75 words of 826 total…

…showed last 75 words of 826 total…she comes into a room. Throughout the poem, she tries to explain that it's in her hips, her step, her lips, her eyes, teeth, waist and feet. She says it's in her smile, her breasts, her style but the men still can't see so they just listen very quietly and that way Maya doesn't have to "shout or jump about or have to talk real loud" Because she's a phenomenal women as all women are.