Story of maya angelou autobiography books
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‘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
Take a closer look at the Virago Modern Classics collection of Dr. Maya Angelou&#;s seven volume collection of autobiographical writing. This collection includes:
VOLUME ONE: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
VOLUME TWO: Gather Together In My Name
VOLUME THREE: Singin’ & Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
VOLUME FOUR: The Heart of a Woman
VOLUME FIVE: All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes
VOLUME SIX: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
VOLUME SEVEN: Mom and Me and Mom
Maya Angelou&#;s seven 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
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List of Maya Angelou works
The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, plays, poetry, and teleplays. She also had an active directing, acting, and speaking career. She is best known for her books, including her series of seven autobiographies, starting with the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ().
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou[1]
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place",[2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War&#;II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now () and Even the Stars Look Lonesome(), which writer Hilton Als called
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On What Would Have Been Maya Angelou's 94th Birthday, We Honor Her Literary Legacy
During a year career that culminated in three Grammys, one Presidential Medal of Freedom, a pris nomination, and 36 books, Maya Angelou never failed to use the power of her skilled words to candidly reflect on the sorrows and celebrations of the human experience.
“The world knows her as a poet, but at the heart of her, she was a teacher,” Oprah said of Angelou. “‘When you learn, teach. When you get, give’ fryst vatten one of my best lessons from her.”
Referred to by Oprah as her “mentor, mother/sister, and friend,” Angelou—who died in at age 86—spent her life offering earned wisdom to society through countless poems, essays, and memoirs, bravely sharing her many trials and tribulations—but also triumphs—as a Black woman in America. But just like Oprah, Angelou’s candor encouraged many people to maintain hope during even in the darkest of times.
From her profound I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to