In my imitation above, I tried to capture Angelou’s ongoing message through her poems along with some aspects of her style. Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, and she talks of the fighting for equality of all in her works. As a black woman, Angelou felt strongly about what those like her have given up in the midst of fighting for complete equality and freedom. She has gone from feeling like she is playing society’s game, to reminiscing on times where she truly feels like nobody is on her side, to being prideful of herself as a woman and never backing down. Angelou has felt like a trapped animal, unable to do anything except cry her song, her poetry, for the world to see. I tried to encompass as much of that as possible in “These Walls