Freedom is something that should be a right to anyone and any type of race no matter what. In the poem “I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is about Angelou’s childhood. The bird is a metaphor for a someone trying to escape there home and environment. The caged bird is representing in Angelou’s confinement from racism. Angelou was abandoned by her parents because of racism and not have her rights. She then moved away to a country where the racism wasn’t as bad and could be stopped. This poem is a symbol of hope as the bird wanted to get away from the racism place. It is how Angelou’s meaning of writing this is because she values hope, education, and to see how strong people can be. This poem is relevant because its her real-life story which puts much more emotional contact with others around the world. This poem teaches me that racism is not acceptable because the lives people get put through is not fair. Some are not even living with there families, being kicked out of education and how they are forced to do stuff for nothing in return. Racism is discrimination to them in their own countries and forced to move away by there own thoughts because of the cruelty happening. In the end, this poem is a life of a human who went through this exact event and doesn’t have that right to stick up for herself and is forced to moved away where it is less discriminating to them. I think is all needs to stop and should not be a thing to discriminate because of a race.