Maya Angelou

A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.

I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

Dreya

Dillon Gonzalez

“What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you)”

clara

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

"I was falling" "I was falling in the sky." I liked her for being able to fall in the sky and admit it.

and after being a woman for three years I was about to become a girl.

‘’To be let alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.’’

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