Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are 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 this first volume of her five books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the Amercian 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.
'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
- ‘You can see why she has become a feminist role model . . . when she starts singing, it’s magic’ GUARDIAN
- 'I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself more moved'
- JAMES BALDWIN
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- 'There's currently a glut of true-life stories written by survivors of abuse, but this inspirational 1969 book is one of the first - and the best…[it] is testament to the immense strength of this extraordinary woman' MARIE CLAIRE
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Published 03/08/2006
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