Maya Angelou, the famous author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, has written through this book her autobiography and a look at the segregation in the early years of 1930's. On page 187 of that book she has written that: " It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of blackness." Earlier in her childhood she suffered and learned from the grievance of certain white people in the south part of United States of America. At Stamps where she was raised by her grandmother, as a child she was affected by racism and those who p