Maya Angelou Summary

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Maya Angelou talks about her days working for an old white woman named Viola Cullinan. Maya worked for Mrs. Cullinan along with another servant named Ms. Glory. Ms. Glory was working for Mrs. Cullinan for about 20 years and she trained Maya by telling her the difference between the bread and dessert dishes and other domestic chores. One day Mrs. Cullinan called Maya the wrong name saying that it was to long and decided to change it to Mary. That infuriated Maya and even though Ms. Glory told her not to mind it so much, she still wanted to get revenge. Maya was trying her best to get fired but it wasn’t happening so one day Maya dropped Mrs. Cullinan’s fine china that she had brought with her from Virginia. “It was a dangerous
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