I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of the most widely censored books in the United States, is the autobiography of Maya Angelou and her struggles growing up in a segregated town in Arkansas called Stamps. Most of this book takes place in her hometown of Stamps, where she lived with her grandmother (whom she called Momma) her Uncle Willie, and her brother, Bailey Junior. At age three she was sent by her parents …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…college, Maya has faint thoughts that she might be a lesbian, but about the same time, she finds herself pregnant by a man she barely knew and had met on the streets. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings ends rather abruptly when Maya has a baby. It ends with mother saying, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking."