Maya Angelou

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.

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 In Ghana, one unclaimed corpse merited prin- cipal news coverage, and Efua's emotional response, while in America, black bodies still quick with life demanded no such concern. Too often among ourselves, since lives were cheap, dying was cheaper. Since the end of slavery, black Americans running or walking, hitchhiking or hoboing from untenable place to unsupportable place, had died in fields, in prisons, hospitals, on battlegrounds, in beds and barns, and if pain ccOmpanied their births, only the dying knew of their deaths. Ihey had come and gone unrecorded save in symbolic lore, and unclaimed save by the soil which turned them into earth again.

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