Maya Angelou, born on April 4, 1928, is the daughter of Bailey and Vivian Baxter Johnson. Her father worked as a navy dietician. When Maya Angelou was three her parents divorced and she went to live with her grandmother with her brother Bailey in Stamps, Arkansas. When Angelou was eight, she returned to St. Louis to live with her mother. While there, her mother's boyfriend raped her, and she then did not talk for five years. Not knowing what to do, Angelou was sent back to her grandmother. She soon went to live with her other again in San Francisco, but this did not last long, and left for her father's. This was not a stable home so she stayed in the car graveyard with other homeless children. Both her parents were pretty much absent through her entire life.
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