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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Synopsis
'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' Maya Angelou
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. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780349005997 |
| Publication date: |
31st March 2015 |
| Author: |
Maya Angelou |
| Publisher: |
Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
320 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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Press Reviews
Maya Angelou Press Reviews
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
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
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About Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, playwright, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, is most famous for her six volumes of autobiography beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou died in 2014.
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