Okay, step one felt obvious: read her stuff. I dug into “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” first. Man, right from the start? It hits you. Not holding anything back. Talking about trauma, racism, growing up Black and poor in the South – stuff you just didn’t see laid out so bare and so damn honest in mainstream books back then, or even now, sometimes. It wasn’t just the story, it was ho... https://fairytales.cc/maya-angelou-enduring-legacy-in-literature-see-how-she-changed-writing/