Maya Angelou Research Paper

Ways Culture Can Influence People’s Lives Some people feel like they are not a part of a crowd. They feel like they are lost because there is nobody around like them. Maya Angelou, the famous poet, felt the same way. Angelou did not think there was anyone around like her until she started to study culture. Culture can influence people’s lives by giving them a voice, confidence, and different beliefs. During Maya Angelou’s early life, she learned that culture can give people a voice. When Maya was seven years old, her stepfather molested her. That destroyed her spirit completely. From then on, Maya took a vow of silence. She only spoke to her brother, Bailey. When she did not talk to him, she read books and poems. One day a lady from Maya’s community spoke to her about how powerful the spoken word can be. She said, “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” Angelou realized she was right. Maya started to write her own poems and recite to Puckett 2 them others’. That built her confidence and made her more courageous. She spoke on what her step father did to her. Angelou observed many other types of literature that expressed culture. It made her voice more interesting and …show more content…
was alive, he was confident in his culture. He was so confident that others’ started to believe what he believed. Martin believed that all men were created equal and should be treated equal. He did not believe that his people were worthless, like the white man would say. Dr. King had such beliefs in his culture that others’ started to have faith also. His words were so powerful that people would hang on them. Crowds of people would come to support him in whatever he had planned. His belief in his culture gave him a grand amount of respect from many people. When one truly has faith in his/her culture nobody can deter him/her from accomplishing his/her goal (Jill Egan

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