I write about being a Black American woman,however,I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are,what makes us laugh,and this is how we fall and how we somehow,amazingly,stand up again
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The first and best-known of Maya Angelou's extraordinary seven volumes of autobiography is a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.
Loving the world,she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty,but also hope,joy,achievement and celebration.
In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.
Reviewing the book in 1970,The Washington Post commented,'There isn't any easy,which is to say false line in the book. The distance,which is everything,is as true as a plumb line. She is outside and inside at the same time,looking at all of it with double vision.'
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780860685111Number of pages: 320Weight: 252 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
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'A brilliant writer,a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman.'- President Barack Obama
'The poems and stories she wrote... were gifts of wisdom and wit,courage and grace.'- President Bill Clinton
'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm,confidence and a fierce grace...She will always be the rainbow in my clouds.'- Oprah Winfrey
'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate.'- Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
A global icon,acclaimed American poet,activist,and autobiographer Maya Angelou is widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century. A prolific writer and chronicler of her own life,Angelou's best-known works include her breakout 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,And Still I Rise,Gather Together in My Name and Letter to My Daughter.
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