I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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I write about being a Black American woman however I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are what makes us laugh and this is how we fall and how we somehow amazingly stand up again' Maya Angelou In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. Loving the world she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination violence and extreme poverty but also hope joy achievement and celebration.