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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Narrator
- Maya Angelou
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 4 April 2014
- Run Time
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'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
Critics Review
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A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman
President Barack Obama
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The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
President Bill Clinton
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She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds
Oprah Winfrey
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She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate
Toni Morrison
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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 Baldwin
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A trailblazer in decolonial, anti-racist movements and intersectional feminism, memoirist, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is a powerhouse of a woman
Daily Mail
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Steeped in resilience and grace
The i paper
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One of the most influential biographies of our time
Daily Express
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Heartbreaking, beautiful and inspiring in equal measure, a searing insight into an extraordinary life with hope in the wake of extreme trauma . . . a landmark work of literature
Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Narrator
- Maya Angelou
- Duration
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 April 2014
- ISBN
- 9781405531191
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Autobiography: general, Biography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Autobiography: writers
Synopsis
Maya Angelou's six 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 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.'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
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