There’s the other part of me that wants to share her message, abounding in beauty, grief, tenderness, joy, life lessons overflowing with wisdom, faith. There’s part of me that just wants to hold onto this lovely little gem of a book, to just hold onto these words a little longer in the hopes they’ll more thoroughly permeate my soul. Here is my offering to you.”-from Letter to My Daughter You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters.
Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.OL22541197M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:lettertomydaught00ange:epub:91e3acfc-88e3-424e-9c3e-9f90e472c3db Extramarc University of North Carolina Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lettertomydaught00ange Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0jt1bb6x Isbn 1400066123ĩ781400066124 Lccn 2008028843 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22541197M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:22:58 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA165718 Boxid_2 CH132222 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīlogistics Edition 1st ed.
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