Maya Angelou, who is an African American autobiographer renowned for her six series of her biographical volumes. This paper talks about one of the autobiographies of Angelou’s The Heart of a Woman which is mainly focused on her adulthood and motherhood. This paper attempts to focus on the writings of Maya which reflect mainly about the racial discrimination, issues related to Gender inequality, political aspects and her struggles for survival in this contemporary society. Angelou carried out different themes like acceptance of black womanhood, racial brutality, motherhood, self-acceptance for the situations of African American society. She has neatly recorded the African American feminine experience from the early days of the Civil Rights Movement to the present day.

Keywords: Autobiography, Womanish, African American Society.