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Maya Angelou Maya Angelou overcame her rough childhood and acomplished many things in life. Read on to find out about some of the things Maya Angelou has/had accomplished and how she became sucssful in life. Maya Angelou examplified perseverence by overcoming a rough childhood, limitations, and challenges because of her different skin color.

Maya Angelou overcame her rough and horrible childhood. At the age of eight, Maya was raped. After she was raped Maya never spoke in public again.in the next few years Maya was turned down by many white doctors because of her different skin color. at the age of sixteen, Maya became pregnat and soon delivered her baby a little bit after she graduated from high school.

Maya Angelou overcame her limitations. As a child and as she got older she was turned down by many whitee docters because of the different skin color.By age twenty-two Maya Angelou became a singer at nite club to support her family. Even through her limitations she became the first african-american to earn a national book award for one of the books she had piblished.

Maya Angelou overcame he challenges of beimg a different race/color. When she was young, she would get sick and have to travel very far to find a doctor that would treat her just because the doctors that worked around her would not treat her because of her color of skin.One way she had suceeded in life was that she was the first african-american to get a national award for one of her books. She was also the first african-american to become a director.

By refussing to let her color effect her life, she became very sucessful in life, she was able to go past her bad childhood, limitations, and her challenges of beiing a different race/color. she proved this by the many different things she had suceeded in her life.

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