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Biography & Autobiography.
African American Nonfiction.
Nonfiction.
HTML:In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
??A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women.???The Washington Post
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou??s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job??and from man to man. She tries to return home??back to Stamps, Arkansas??but discovers that she is no longer part of that world. Then Maya??s life takes a dramatic turn, and she faces new cha… (más)
It’s hard to read such an honest book full of uncomfortable truths. The author picks up where Caged Bird left off, telling her story from ages 17-19. It’s a story of beginnings and endings as she struggles to define herself as a person and find her way as an adult in a harsh world, as her family disintegrates around her. She tries on and discards personas like costumes – short order cook, grand sophisticate, professional dancer, giddy young mistress, sternly remote woman, whorehouse madam, aspiring junkie. This last venture ends the book and what an emotional nuclear bomb it was.
As she tells her story, Angelou seems to regard her younger self with both impatience and sympathy, never trying to justify her thoughts and actions, but only demonstrating how she reacted to and attempted to control her circumstances, made mistakes and learned from them, and through it we see how she grew to become the woman who inspired so many.
Vintage hardcover, picked up secondhand at a used bookshop.
I read this for The 24 Festive Tasks 2019 for Door 22 New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31): Read a book about endings, new starts, or books where things go BOOM! with fireworks on the cover, set in medieval times, about the papacy, or where miracles of any sort are performed. ( )
L'écriture est belle, mais ce roman biographique est déconcertant tellement la jeune femme qu'a été Maya Angelou est naïve, jusqu'à la bêtise. C'est comme ça que je l'ai ressenti, et ça m'a gâché la lecture, me posant toujours la question de savoir si l'auteure forçait le trait pour paraître aussi crédule face à des hommes qui la menait en bateau... ( )
This book had me laughing and feeling so much. Her second installment is just a beautiful as the first. I felt I was seeing her not only grow in age but wisdom. And young maya was not the brightest. Things would happen to her that blew my mind. So many red flags that she was simply color blind to. I am excited to read the third autobiography to find out what is next for her, guy, her brother, and mother. Will she finally learn that writing is her gift? Will she have confidence in love in her self? I have no idea anything is possible in in the next five books. ( )
The second book of Maya Angelou's autobiography telegraphing her early life with her son, Guy and her making her way in this world as a short order cook, a madame, a sex worker, and a dancer. Her works depicts the racism experienced by Blacks in the 1940's United States and conveys just how difficult it was to be bright with no prospects except those that you make for yourself. ( )
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This book is dedicated to my blood brother Bailey Johnson and to the other real brothers who encouraged me to be bodacious enough to invent my own life daily: James Baldwin, Kwesi Brew, David Du Bois, Samuel Floyd, John O. Killens, Vagabond King, Leo Maitland, Vusumzi Make, Julian Mayfield, Max Roach. A special thanks to my friend Dolly McPherson.
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It was a "come as you are" party and "all y'all come."
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Biography & Autobiography.
African American Nonfiction.
Nonfiction.
HTML:In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
??A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women.???The Washington Post
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou??s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job??and from man to man. She tries to return home??back to Stamps, Arkansas??but discovers that she is no longer part of that world. Then Maya??s life takes a dramatic turn, and she faces new cha
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As she tells her story, Angelou seems to regard her younger self with both impatience and sympathy, never trying to justify her thoughts and actions, but only demonstrating how she reacted to and attempted to control her circumstances, made mistakes and learned from them, and through it we see how she grew to become the woman who inspired so many.
Vintage hardcover, picked up secondhand at a used bookshop.
I read this for The 24 Festive Tasks 2019 for Door 22 New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31): Read a book about endings, new starts, or books where things go BOOM! with fireworks on the cover, set in medieval times, about the papacy, or where miracles of any sort are performed.
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