Maya Angelou

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's second book of essays, published during the long period between her fifth and sixth autobiographies, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Stars, like her first book of essays, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My …

Gather Together in My Name is an autobiography by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. The book begins immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to …

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes is author Maya Angelou's first cookbook. It pairs 28 essays written by Angelou with 73 recipes. Angelou got the title from an African-American spiritual. The book's audio version, which was produced at the same time the book was published, was narrated …

I Shall Not Be Moved is author and poet Maya Angelou's fifth collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1990. Angelou had written four autobiographies and published four other volumes of poetry up to that point. Angelou considered herself a poet and a playwright and her poetry has also been successful, but she …

Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage est un roman autobiographique publié en 1969 sur les jeunes années de l'activiste et écrivaine américaine Maya Angelou. Premier d'une série de six volumes, ce roman initiatique illustre combien force de caractère et amour de la littérature peuvent aider à affronter le racisme …

Dans ce récit, considéré aujourd’hui comme un classique de la littérature américaine, Maya Angelou relate son parcours hors du commun, ses débuts d’écrivain et de militante dans l’Amérique des années 1960 marquée par le racisme anti-Noir, ses combats, ses amours. Son témoignage, dénué de la moindre complaisance, …

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first …