'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 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, & this is how we fall & 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.Â
Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.Â
As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence & extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement & celebration.
The international classic & bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend & a truly phenomenal woman'
- Barack Obama.
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