Movements like the Civil Rights Movement and progressive ideas were taking a more mobile approach and taking the culture by storm. Ideas of identity and racism were televised on a weekly basis. Written at the end of the 1960’s, it’s easy to understand the meaning behind the autobiography. Calypso the dancer to the novelist, philosopher and civil rights activists that history has come to know.
It would be the work that would raise her image from Ms. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Angelou’s first autobiography. Forty-eight years later, the words of Maya Angelou are as relevant today as they were the day they were published. And was a real original.In 1969, an autobiography hit bookshelves across the nation, ushering topics such as racism, identity, sexual assault and literacy to the forefront of American culture. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace. ' 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 As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. 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 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being.
The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).
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