No loser, No weeper by Maya Angelou In Maya Angelou's, "No loser, No Weeper," one of he r many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920's during the Depression, by using tone, diction, repetition, rhyme, and figurative language. Because of the suffering that she has endured as an African American Woman during the 1920's, Angelou's life made her far more than a loser ora weeper instead, she would be labeled a poet, an actress, a teacher, a playwright, dancer, author, and a survivor. In order to understand the success of Ms. Maya Angelo we must first understand her background. Maya Angelo grew up with h