I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679451730 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 193 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." . These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in Calif
It is amazing that we can hear Dr Here's my review on one of the three books that I've read by Maya Angelou:I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings:Smiling Through SadnessMaya Angelou’s first memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, captures the sweetest, purest, and the most honest inner voice of a black child who grew up to be a heroine. Dr. Angelou does not censor anything; She wants us to know it all. It is so true, straightforward, and uncensored that many white parents have attempted to ban this book from schools. This memorable and mysterious autobiogr. A story of inspiration and lessons Published in 1969 and one of several autobiographies that Maya Angelou would write. However, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is her first and the most intimate memoirs to be written and to take into account a lifetime of experiences during the most pivotal periods in American history. Her story represents and is symbolic to the African American experience during pre-civil rights era and the migration of communities in the United States during the late 1930s and 1950s that uprooted their lives from the south in places such a. Martin R. Wessner said A true necessity in understanding human psychology and our nation's past.. I read this book about 10 years ago and didn't have the appreciation for it that I do now. This is not a warm and fuzzy story, but it is the truth as the author goes through her life as a child to young adult. The subjects, which are many, and experiences that Ms Angelou lived through must be remembered forever. I hesitated at the mood. I would say it was a dark story, and was a dark time in America's past, and humanity's past. To say that white and black people have differences is true, but don't we all? Isn't that what tr
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “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 BaldwinFrom the Hardcover edition.. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen o