Maya Angelou\'s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.
She learns the power of the white folks at the other e.
In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.
As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.
Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
Maya Angelou\'s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer