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Mom & Me & Mom (2013) is the seventh and final book in author Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies. The book was published shortly before Mother's Day and Angelou's 85th birthday. It focuses, for the first time in her books, on Angelou's relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter.
Four years later, when Angelou was seven and her brother eight, the children's father "came to Stamps without warning" [10] and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman.
Angelou's friend Oprah Winfrey (shown here in 2004), the subject of one of the essays in Stars Angelou defends her controversial support of Clarence Thomas in Stars. Angelou discusses a wide range of topics in Stars, including Africa, aging and the young's misconceptions of it, sex and sensuality, self-reflection, independence, and violence.
Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
As millions of people joined in Women's Marches around the world Saturday, friends of the late Maya Angelou affirmed she was there in spirit. How Maya Angelou was at the Women's March on ...
‘That book gave a voice to my silences, my secrets,’ she says
Angelou's experiences as a working-class single mother challenged traditional and Western viewpoints of women and family life, including the nuclear family structure. [86] Angelou described societal forces, strategies of economic survival, and differential experiences of family structure.