Still I Rise

I have never had a "good" answer for who my favorite poet is. When I was younger it was easily Maya Angelou, because that was the only poetry I was familiar with (the main poetry books I had when I was younger was Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes). Even with me exploring poetry in and out of class I still had such a love for Maya Angelou's work.

She is such a well known poet I would be surprised if you didn't know her. I decided to further look into her because of this blogpost, and I did not realize how truly strong she was as a black woman during the civil rights era. Her parents split when she was young and when she went to visit her mother, her mother's boyfriend raped her. She was around seven years old. Just one out of the many stories I found when reading about her.

So for me I think it is far more than her poetry itself, it's what she stands for and what she has been through as a black woman. She was someone I could look up to and I could find strength through her poetry.

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