Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her
six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and
resilience.. 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 six
books of autobiography, 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.
However, far from
being dispiriting, James Baldwin writes, '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.''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
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
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