Maya Angelou Biography Long ago I believe it was April 4, 1928 when my best friend Maya was born. Maya and I lived in the town of Stamps, Arkansas with her grandmother due to her parents' divorce. During these terrible years, at the age of 7, Maya went to visit her grandmother when she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Later, due to hatred, his uncle killed his mother's boyfriend. She was so traumatized by everything that she even stopped speaking. During this time Maya and I became great friends because, you see, Maya loved to write and well, I was her tool, the only object that made her happy, as you may already know, I'm a pencil her best friend. He had a difficult childhood but he never gave up on having me. I remember on his hardest nights he would grab me and write down all his feelings and emotions it was his escape and it's just amazing to know how much you have helped a person. Even where we lived in Stamps, Arkansas, it was difficult because Stamps was a rural, segregated environment. It's really hard to live in a place where you're not treated equally. He never let me go, I was that person who was there through all of his struggles during some of the hardest years of his life. I still remember the day she started writing her autobiography, now very well known, it is called "I know why the caged bird sings" and talks about what her life was like from when she was little until the age of 16. .Also at the age of 16 I remember that when this little boy arrived he cried and cried. I wish I could help him just like I helped Maya, but well he was a little Maya boy named Guy. In these times “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” became very popular, indeed one of the best sellers. Maya and I have... half a card... Another day of pain is too much to bear Now you just wish they cared How can I mend this broken heart? When you were the only thing to hold together Daddy's little girlFive years feeling the war in the familyI'm tired of fighting over that bottleI'd like to leave you alone but my heart won't let you goI grew up afraid of ever being lovedAt eight I had to see those horrible lights My life fell apart daddy's little girl needed you When you left my head started spinning Nothing felt right, like an endless hurricane came crashing in I found comfort in others I thought I could escape the pain but I couldn't Twelve years depressed and confusedI needed that family but there was no oneBut I found a new family full of love and happiness, something you could never give me and now daddy's little girl is happy again