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…showed last 75 words of 632 total…dire need to affirm her femininity and heterosexuality by engaging in sexual intercourse with a male, even with a boy she cared little or nothing about. Maya is able to extract from these experiences, whether they were pleasant or traumatic, and transform the wisdom into purely beautiful and sincerely evocative tales in a lucid yet elegant way that illuminates her fluid writing. Bibliography 1. Angelou, Maya. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Published 1983. Bantam Books.