• although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism?

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Maya Angelou

• Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world?
• The Heart of a Woman, the fourth installment of Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, has been called her "most introspective"?
• according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic?
• although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism?