...MayaAngelou will really warm your heart with her collection. Her inspiring words will make you feel you are not alone walking through life's journey.
Her words of encourangement will enpower your soul, your mind and spirit knowing that the greatest thing will come your way
Her words really inspire me to continue living and believing in the beauty of life no matter how many trials we experience.
'Come, Be My Baby', is one of my favorite among her collection of poems. It made me feel secure, at home and at peace.
For mother, daughter, sister, for everyone who wants to build and renew broken dreams, treasure special moments...
Looking at this book is like hearing a small voice that says "Don't give up, Im here..You are not alone".
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Advantages: Deep feelings, empathy, sadness ; Everyone needs a little bit now and then Disadvantages: No Illustrations other than the written word.
...I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS....
The day that I picked this book up, I was around nineteen years old. I read the title and knew, yes knew, exactly why the caged bird sings --if he can find the voice to do so.
At nineteen = my age then-- people had hardly heard of or knew of MayaAngelou. Yet there was something about this title that drew me to the book. Was my life filled with so much sadness in the past that whenever it called out to m e in book titles?
I suspected the book was one of sadness & I'd not read any of the blurbs about it. So I came to this book unpredjudiced as far as deciding what this book would be or was about.
Seems that lots of this book is about Maya .
(She was raped in real life and she suffered tremendously), and I'm guessing that some of these writings have come from real-life experiences...
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Advantages: It's a wonderful display of Maya's talent Disadvantages: None
...MayaAngelou's versatility is evident in her CV: Mother, dancer, filmmaker, activist, editor, writer and friend of Oprah. Her poetry is rich and full, with incredible rhythm, and for want of another cliche, paints beautiful colours with her words. My favourate is 'A zorro man' which illustrates this:
Here
in this wombed room
silk purple drapes
flash a light as subtle
as your hands
before love making
Here
in the covered lens
I catch a clitoral image
of your general inhabitation
This book is published by Virago (a publishing company run entirely by women and for women) and at £9.99 is an absolute bargain for so many poems.
MayaAngelou has written a series of 5 autobiographical books about living as a black child and woman in America. In 'My Arkansas' she tells of the ignorance there:
Today is yet to come
in Arkansas.
It writhes...
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