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Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

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“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin

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Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.

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"What you looking at me for?
I didn't come to stay . . ."

I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember. Other things were more important.

"What you looking at me for?
I didn't come to stay . . ."

Whether I could remember the rest of the poem or not was immaterial. The truth of the statement was like a wadded-up handkerchief, sopping wet in my fists, and the sooner they accepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the air would cool my palms.

"What you looking at me for . . . ?"

The children's section of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was wiggling and giggling over my well-known forgetfulness.

The dress I wore was lavender taffeta, and each time I breathed it rustled, and now that I was sucking in air to breathe out shame it sounded like crepe paper on the back of hearses.

As I'd watched Momma put ruffles on the hem and cute little tucks around the waist, I knew that once I put it on I'd look like a movie star. (It was silk and that made up for the awful color.) I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite [sometimes it was 'dear Marguerite'], forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you."

Just thinking about it made me go around with angel's dust sprinkled over my face for days. But Easter's early morning sun had shown the dress to be a plain ugly cut-down from a white woman's once-was-purple throwaway. It was old-lady-long too, but it didn't hide my skinny legs, which had been greased with Blue Seal Vaseline and powdered with the Arkansas red clay. The age-faded color made my skin look dirty like mud, and everyone in church was looking at my skinny legs.

Wouldn't they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream, and my real hair, which was long and blond, would take the place of the kinky mass that Momma wouldn't let me straighten? My light-blue eyes were going to hypnotize them, after all the things they said about "my daddy must of been a Chinaman" (I thought they meant made out of china, like a cup) because my eyes were so small and squinty. Then they would understand why I had never picked up a Southern accent, or spoke the common slang, and why I had to be forced to eat pigs' tails and snouts. Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.

"What you looking ..." The minister's wife leaned toward me, her long yellow face full of sorry. She whispered, "I just come to tell you, it's Easter Day." I repeated, jamming the words together, "Ijustcometotellyouit'sEasterDay," as low as possible. The giggles hung in the air like melting clouds that were waiting to rain on me. I held up two fingers, close to my chest, which meant that I had to go to the toilet, and tiptoed toward the rear of the church. Dimly, somewhere over my head, I heard ladies saying, "Lord bless the child," and "Praise God." My head was up and my eyes were open, but I didn't see anything. Halfway down the aisle, the church exploded with "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" and I tripped over a foot stuck out from the children's pew. I stumbled and started to say something, or maybe to scream, but a green persimmon, or it could have been a lemon, caught me between the legs and squeezed. I tasted the sour on my tongue and felt it in the back of my mouth. Then before I reached the door, the sting was burning down my legs and into my Sunday socks. I tried to hold, to squeeze it back, to keep it from speeding, but when I reached the church porch I knew I'd have to let it go, or it would probably run right back up to my head and my poor head would burst like a dropped watermelon, and all the brains and spit and tongue and eyes would roll all over the place. So I ran down into the yard and let it go. I ran, peeing and crying, not toward the toilet out back but to our house. I'd get a whipping for it, to be sure, and the nasty children would have something new to tease me about. I laughed anyway, partially for the sweet release; still, the greater joy came not only from being liberated from the silly church but from the knowledge that I wouldn't die from a busted head.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

It is an unnecessary insult.

Chapter One

When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed—"To Whom It May Concern"—that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson.

Our parents had decided to put an end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother. A porter had been charged with our welfare—he got off the train the next day in Arizona—and our tickets were pinned to my brother's inside coat pocket.

I don't remember much of the trip, but after we reached the segregated southern part of the journey, things must have looked up. Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for "the poor little motherless darlings" and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.

Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged on its economic promises.

The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming. It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless (and children) it closed in around us, as a real mother embraces a stranger's child. Warmly, but not too familiarly.

We lived with our grandmother and uncle in the rear of the Store (it was always spoken of with a capital s), which she had owned some twenty-five years.

Early in the century, Momma (we soon stopped calling her Grandmother) sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard (east Stamps) and the seedmen at the cotton gin (west Stamps). Her crisp meat pies and cool lemonade, when joined to her miraculous ability to be in two places at the same time, assured her business success. From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of fiscal interest and supplied the workers' needs for a few years. Then she had the Store built in the heart of the Negro area. Over the years it became the lay center of activities in town. On Saturdays, barbers sat their customers in the shade on the porch of the Store, and troubadours on their ceaseless crawlings through the South leaned across its benches and sang their sad songs of The Brazos while they played juice harps and cigarbox guitars.

The formal name of the Store was the Wm. Johnson General Merchandise Store. Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. Anything not visible had only to be ordered.

Until we became familiar enough to belong to the Store and it to us, we were locked up in a Fun...

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; Reissue Edition (21. April 2009)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 304 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345514408
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345514400
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 10.54 x 2.08 x 17.37 cm

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Maya Angelou, geboren 1928, war Tänzerin, Calypso-Sängerin, erste schwarze Straßenbahnschaffnerin San Franciscos, alleinerziehende Mutter, Pimp, Schauspielerin, Theaterregisseurin, Filmregisseurin, Journalistin, Prosaschriftstellerin, Lyrikerin, Bürgerrechtlerin, engste Vertraute von Martin Luther King und Malcolm X, und das alles vor ihrem vierzigsten Geburtstag. Als sie 2014 verstarb, trauerte ganz Amerika. »Ich weiß, warum der gefangene Vogel« singt erschien erstmals 1969.

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This was my second reading, and sadly it has been even more relevant in the 21st century than in the 20th. I again admired the unadorned writing style, the dispassionate descriptions of hard-to-live -with social discrimination, and the personal events of Maya Angelou's life. Although I would like to recommend this book as a must-read first-hand account to teach school children social history, after reading some of the one-star reviews, I have to say that this can only be done in a classroom in America with a qualified teach on hand to explain the "difficult" passages, which do include rape and teenage sex because, you prickly pear parents, that is what America was like in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and still is like in many southern states today. Maya Angelou's clear writing style is a model for other writers to follow, and the host of wry phrases worked in to her narrative reveal just how much she was able to rise above the harassment and disappointments of her daily life, including the issue of white people high-handedly shortening her given baptismal name, Marguerite to Mary.
The utter suppression of this book by placing it on a list of banned books on equal footing with "Harry Potter" and George Orwell's horrifically savage adult satire "1984" just shows that these illiterate poorly-educated and small-minded censors have either never read the books or never understood their content and message. Maya Angelou's book gives an accurate depiction of social history and also conveys a message of hope to all her present and future readers, especially the younger ones. Remember how much she was loved and praised by the public at the end of her life.

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Beautifully written, the book takes you to the time and place, and hold real insights into the experiences of the writer. Simply and elegantly told.

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Die Biografie spielt in der Kinder- und Jugendzeit Maya Angelous. Dies ist ein Aspekt, der mir besonders gefallen hat, da nur so bestimmte Fragen aus kindlicher Neugierde heraus auf solch unschuldiger Art und Weise gestellt werden konnten, dass es den Leser kurz aus der Fassung bringt. Manche gesellschaftlich umfassenden und komplexen Themen wurden so simpel hinterfragt, dass ich mich kurz gefragt habe, ob es nicht hätte so simpel sein können.

Es gibt Leser, die recht pragmatisch nach gutem Inhalt suchen, und es gibt Leser, die literarisch gefordert werden wollen - beide werden mit diesem Buch absolut glücklich sein. Dies ist eines der Bücher, die einen nicht sagen, wie man zu fühlen hat, sondern einen genau das fühlen lassen. Angelou schafft es, Situationen zu erschaffen, in denen ich kurz vergesse, dass ich "nur" ein Buch lese. Absolute Lese-Empfehlung für jeden, der sich für eine bitter-süße Darstellung einer Zeit interessiert, in der darüber berichtet wird, was es heißt, eine afro-amerikanische Frau zu sein.

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Written from a place and perspective that I can impossibly share, except in the circumstances of three great women in my life. My Great-Grandmother lost her husband in the Great War and brought up three children. From when I was born she lived in our house. With her daughter, my maternal Grandmother, when her husband passed, she had only one daughter and there they were in 1958, three women, the younger ones felt no support from any community, but a local church was bequeathed a local store. The community offered material support to run a business, something Nana was not a stranger to. It is in the weighing of the flour, and an extra loaf to a struggling family, that piece by piece that spirit of community is passed on...

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I have been meaning to read one of Angelou's books for years, and was quite pleased when our book club chose this. This is a very candid memoir about growing up in mid 20th century America. Although Angelou endured a lot as a child (being sent to live with her grandmother when she was 5, being raped by her mother's boyfriend at 8 and a whole host of other injustices suffered by many African.Americans at the time), there is no self-pity here. I really appreciated her vivid descriptions of people and places. I felt as if I knew the main characters personally by the end of the book. This may have been the first full book I read by Ms. Angelou, but it won't be my last.

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Maya Angelou hat nicht nur ein aussergewöhnliches Talent sondern auch ein außergewöhnliches Leben, in das man durch dieses sowie die weiteren Werke dieser autobiografischen Reihe eintauchen kann. Ich empfehle absolut, wenn möglich, die englische orig. Version zu lesen, da ihr Ausdruck und ihr literarisches Talent einzigartig sind. 1-Stern- und negative Bewertungen kann ich hier absolut nicht nachvollziehen, da muss man schon ein Verachter literarischer Kunst oder afro-amerikanischer Frauen sein.

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Ein beeindruckendes Leben

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Dieser erste Band von Maya Angelous Autobiografie beschreibt ihre Kindheit und Jugend bis zur Geburt ihres Sohnes. Ein Leben in Kalifornien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, inmitten von Armut, Gewalt und Rassismus. Doch die spätere Dr. Angelou gibt nicht auf. Es gelingt ihr, die erste schwarze Straßenbahnschaffnerin zu werden. Die Energie und Lebensweisheit ihrer Mutter hilft ihr, sich durchzusetzen.
Als dieses Buch 1969 erschien, war es eine Sensation, ein bahnbrechendes Zeugnis direkt aus der afroamerikanischen Community heraus. Auch heute noch ist diese Biografie lesenswert. Die Lektüre macht deutlich, wieviel die Bürgerrechtsbewegung seit damals geschafft hat, aber auch, wieviel es noch zu tun gibt. Danke an die Autorin, die Menschen eine Stimme gibt, die normalerweise selten zu hören sind.

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Emotional Story. I liked it.

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Very difficult to read for me as a foreigner. But I definitly love her personality. She has a very intersting story.

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Versão econômica, mas achei ok pelo o preço pago: 8,20 durante a promoção Mega Ofertas (acho que é esse o nome das ofertas que teve agora em Outubro).

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After I finished reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I had the same feelings of sadness, anger, and even guilt, that I experienced after reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Maya Angelou, like Toni Morrison paints written pictures of some of the individual psychological costs of dehumanizing an entire group of people. The costs of this kind of systemic racism for our entire society are hard for me to fully grasp. I imagine the process is a lot like grief. Perhaps the most important part of that analogy is that I do not think things improve simply by pretending they did not happen.

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In my opinion, this is a worthwhile book. It's banned in some schools but the actual portion for which it is banned is not in graphic detail and just demonstrates an unfortunate situation that happened to a young girl from Mississippi. It's just realism. I was driven to keep reading and I'm not great at reading numerous books but this one was exceptional as it depicts some hard truths back in the day as well as what happens in our times now

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An important autobiography by an award winning author who overcame multiple extreme hardships.

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Born to dark skins, poor parents in disgusting prejudiced areas, incest raped as a child, Maya overcame these and every disaster life faced to her. Her writing, poetry, and this autobiography has earned the highest awards and deserves the title CLASSICS. Having heard her speak in person, I can attest that she rose high above every life challenge which faced her. Her book, this book, tells the good, bad, ugly, and beautiful TRUTH about one of the world’s GREATEST WOMEN EVER! No, she was not perfect, nor does she claim perfection. Maya just accomplished more real, for others and herself, good than all but a very few humans in history.

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First volume of Maya Angelou's Autobiography

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A wonderful, enlightening book. It's beautifully and sensitively written, yet painfully honest. I had a bit of knowledge of Maya Angelou before reading this, so didn't expect any humorous passages, but some parts of he story made me laugh, (especially some of the church scenes!)
She recounts her sometimes brutal childhood years in the 'deep south' with her intensely devout Grandmother and the experience of the black community in the 1930s: still feeling the 'superiority' of the white people.
Maya comes over as a brave and sometimes foolhardy child, who creates her own adventures, sometimes out of adversity. The incident when her Dad takes her to a bar and what follows is again, tragic, yet funny too! Then she was determined to get a job in a field where black people had never been employed. I was in awe of this young woman!
She has a close and mutually supportive relationship with her brother, Bailey which is lovely to read about, but, ultimately, her need to be loved in her early years, and her lack of 'sex education' in her later years lead to far-reaching consequences for her and her family.
I have ordered the second volume of her autobiography, (Gather together in my name), already!

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