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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings In the autobiography " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", acclaimed author and poet Maya Angelou provides a personal and revealing look into her life, filled with astonishing events and decorated with colorful characters. Spanning from when she was a young child to the final chapter, which introduces Maya’s newborn child, the incidents which make her life such an interesting one often demand courage. The author obviously acknowledges this, with her quote "One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." Of the three events or places in the novel that portray such courage, the first and foremost incident must be one of Maya’s early memories. It is the one in which she describes Mama, her grandmother, being harassed in front of their house by a group of several w