![]() ![]() She launched African American women writing in the United States. She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY ![]() 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace. ' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity' JAMES BALDWIN Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a. As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. Maya Angelous debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. ![]() The author begins this volume with a description of her young self standing in front of the church to deliver a short poem on Easter. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. The first of five autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings focuses on the recollections and adult understanding of Maya Angelou's growing up female and black in the America of the 1930s and 1940s. In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. In the memoir, Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson) boldly told the heartbreaking truths of her. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou That book became I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday. ![]() 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). ![]()
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