Maya Angelou is an African American writer who is famous for her memoirs and collections of poetry. Her life exemplifies how each Black American must fight against the odds and come out of life’s miseries and insults. The present study is an attempt focusing on how the Black Americans defended themselves against the racial, superior and White Americans. Being black, they have to go through different struggles in order to survive. Their survival on earth is actually established on insults and attacks and their life is almost like a caged bird. But they fight back like dust and air. They voice against the evils of the American society.