Maya Angelou

Geboren in 1928 mayaangelou.com @DrMayaAngelou

Poëzie

Maya Angelou, geboren als Marguerite Johnson, was een beroemde Amerikaanse dichteres, memoireschrijfster en activiste voor burgerrechten.
Haar autobiografische roman I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) luidde haar literaire carrière in en werd genomineerd voor een National Book Award.
Angelou schreef een serie van zeven autobiografieën, waarbij Mom & Me & Mom haar laatste werk was.
Daarnaast was ze ook actrice, regisseuse en hoogleraar.
Haar dichtbundel Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Die (1971) werd genomineerd voor een Pulitzer Prize.
In 2001 benoemde Ladies Home Journal haar tot een van de dertig machtigste vrouwen van Amerika.
In haar werk staan vaak thema’s centraal als identiteit, familie en het overwinnen van tegenspoed.

Boeken van Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

door Maya Angelou • 1969

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

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500.000+

📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

door Maya Angelou 1969 289 pagina's

4.30

500.000+ beoordelingen

📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

Letter to My Daughter

door Maya Angelou • 1987

Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.

4.09

35.000+

📜 Personal Essays 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌱 Gratitude Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Letter to My Daughter

Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.

door Maya Angelou 1987 192 pagina's

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📜 Personal Essays 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌱 Gratitude Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Mom & Me & Mom

door Maya Angelou • 2013

After a decade of abandonment, Maya Angelou must learn to love the mother who left her.

4.22

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👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation 🌪️ Flawed Mothers 🩹 Generational Healing 🌱 Coming Of Age 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

Mom & Me & Mom

After a decade of abandonment, Maya Angelou must learn to love the mother who left her.

door Maya Angelou 2013 201 pagina's

4.22

27.000+ beoordelingen

👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation 🌪️ Flawed Mothers 🩹 Generational Healing 🌱 Coming Of Age 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

The Heart of a Woman

door Maya Angelou • 2009

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

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🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

The Heart of a Woman

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

door Maya Angelou 2009 352 pagina's

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25.000+ beoordelingen

🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

Gather Together in My Name

door Maya Angelou • 1974

A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🖤 Black Womanhood 🎭 Self Invention 👫 Brother Sister Bond 🏙️ Postwar America

Gather Together in My Name

A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.

door Maya Angelou 1974 224 pagina's

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18.000+ beoordelingen

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🖤 Black Womanhood 🎭 Self Invention 👫 Brother Sister Bond 🏙️ Postwar America

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

door Maya Angelou • 1993

Maya Angelou on dignity: short lessons from a life built from nothing.

4.30

11.000+

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir 📜 Wisdom Literature 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 💝 Self-Acceptance 🍂 Midlife Reflection

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Maya Angelou on dignity: short lessons from a life built from nothing.

door Maya Angelou 1993 144 pagina's

4.30

11.000+ beoordelingen

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir 📜 Wisdom Literature 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 💝 Self-Acceptance 🍂 Midlife Reflection

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