She launched African American women writing in the United States. The story of Maya Angelous extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple best-selling autobiographies. She will always be the rainbow in my clouds’ OPRAH WINFREY

10 years later she came back to live with her mother Maya thought her mother looked weired because of how pretty she looked, she thought there was no way she could be her mother. ‘She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace. Maya Angelou was abandoned by her mother and then sent to live with her grandmother with her brother when she was 3. Mom and Me and Mom is the seventh book in Maya Angelou's remarkable autobiographical series, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. While Angelou’s six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom & Me & Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family. If so, why do you suppose that is How has she been able to overcome a resentment that many of us would carry with us for years 8. 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. ‘A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman’ BARACK OBAMAĪnyone who’s read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. 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 Maya Angelou, beloved and bestselling author I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. ‘In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.’

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