Maya Angelou

A collection of short essays includes personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas.

Letter to My Daughter

The celebrated author shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela to Arkansas to live with her grandmother and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life.

Mom & Me & Mom

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. 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. 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. 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 Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Presents a definitive collection of poetry from Angelou's previous anthologies--Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water, Oh Pray my Wings Gonna Fit Me Well, And Still I Rise, I Shall Not Be Moved, On the Pulse of Morning, and Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? 50,000 first printing.

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

In the fourth volume of her autobiography, the author describes her experiences as a singer-dancer in New York and her impressions of the Civil Rights movement

The Heart of a Woman

Diego Rivera

The vivid paintings of muralist Diego Rivera combine with Angelou's inspirational poetry to celebrate the courage of humanity and its ability to triumph in the face of the most difficult obstacles.

Still I Rise

The author records the years in which her life hinged on retaining her pride and dignity among the street people of Los Angeles

Gather Together in My Name

Four critically acclaimed poems--"Phenomenal Woman," "And Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers"--celebrate the accomplishments of very special women

Four Poems Celebrating Women

Phenomenal Woman

Recounts Angelou's stay in Ghana, together with other African Americans, and her discoveries and reflections concerning her ancestors, Africa, American society, and herself. Reissue. 15,000 first printing.

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In the third volume of her autobiography, the writer recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

A collection of inspirational messages presents the author's insights into such topics as friendship, grace, spirit, family, and healing

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of 'Gimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

An updated collection of the inspirational late writer's complete body of poetry includes her reflections on African-American life inJust Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie and her tribute to Nelson Mandela,His Day Is Done.

The Complete Poetry

The author writes about the black experience in a collection of poetry that perceptively captures the themes of black history, love, heartbreak, triumph, and pain.

I Shall Not be Moved

Presents Maya Angelou's poem illustrated by paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Features biographies of both the author and artist.

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Deals with love, death, nature, the past, sorrow, self-image, street life, memories, aging, men and women, childhood, racism, and writers

Poems

RACISMO. ABUSO. LIBERTAÇÃO. A vida de Marguerite Ann Johnson foi marcada por essas três palavras. A garota negra, criada no sul por sua avó paterna, carregou consigo um enorme fardo que foi aliviado apenas pela literatura e por tudo aquilo que ela pôde lhe trazer: conforto através das palavras. Dessa forma, Maya, como era carinhosamente chamada, escreve para exibir sua voz e libertar-se das grades que foram colocadas em sua vida. As lembranças dolorosas e as descobertas de Angelou estão contidas e eternizadas nas páginas desta obra densa e necessária, dando voz aos jovens que um dia foram, assim como ela, fadados a uma vida dura e cheia de preconceitos. Com uma escrita poética e poderosa, a obra toca, emociona e transforma profundamente o espírito e o pensamento de quem a lê. "Eu tinha quinze anos quando descobri Eu sei por que o pássaro canta na gaiola. Foi uma revelação. [...] pela primeira vez, ali estava uma história que finalmente falava ao meu âmago." - Oprah Winfrey, apresentadora e empresária norte-americana. Trecho do prefácio do livro. "Maya escreve de modo a se libertar e a nos ajudar a sermos livres também. [...] Maya Angelou foi uma mulher que não guardou silêncio, expôs suas dores e, ao fazê-lo, fez com que muitas histórias se conectassem e fossem contadas através de suas narrativas." - Djamila Ribeiro, mestre e pesquisadora na área de Filosofia Política. Trecho da orelha do livro.

Autobiografia de Maya Angelou

Eu sei por que o pássaro canta na gaiola

اعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس

'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our most cherished literary treasures. Anyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom &

Mom and Me and Mom

An anthology of Angelou's poems, divided into the four sections named on the title page.

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