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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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Maya Angelou
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • Publication date: 1984
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Weight: 0.26 kg ISBN: 9780860685111 Note that the actual book cover may differ from the picture

 '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 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. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.

As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.

'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