Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
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Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Letter to my daughter
Responsibility statement
Maya Angelou
Review
"Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: It's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry." "Here in short, spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family."--BOOK JACKET
Table Of Contents
1. Home -- 2. Philanthropy -- 3. Revelations -- 4. Giving Birth -- 5. Accident, Coincident, or Answered Prayer -- 6. To Tell the Truth -- 7. Vulgarity -- 8. Violence -- 9. Mother's Long View -- 10. Morocco -- 11. Porgy and Bess -- 12. Bob & Decca -- 13. Celia Cruz -- 14. Fannie Lou Hamer -- 15. Senegal -- 16. The Eternal Silver Screen -- 17. In Self-Defense -- 18. Mrs. Coretta Scott King -- 19. Condolences -- 20. In the Valley of Humility -- 21. National Spirit -- 22. Reclaiming Southern Roots -- 23. Surviving -- 24. Salute to older Lovers -- 25. Commencement Address -- 26. Poetry -- 27. Mt. Zion -- 28. Keep the Faith
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