The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
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Author: Maya AngelouEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 1997-06-01
ISBN: 0553380095
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: From one real mother to another....I understand !
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Heart Of A Woman" tugged at every internal ounce of my very soul where my womanhood as a mother is concerned. I thought of my four sons and my need to mother (guide) them as I read. I thought of my twin daughters also and my need to mother (guide) them too. Recently,as my first son left, heading for college, I thought again of "The Heart Of A Woman". As he walked through the crosswalk to the airport entrance after kissing me goodbye and thanking me for guiding him over the past eighteen years, my flesh (self) cried and cried. My soul knew that I'd done all that I was capable of doing and that he would be just fine. That's the heart of a woman. Every mother who has ever tried to raise her children through test and trial should read this book. It'll give you the strength to keep on keep'in on!
Summary of The Heart of a Woman
This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sherededicates herself to writing, and finds love at an unexpected moment. Reflecting on her many roles--from northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest to mother of a rebellious teenage son--Angelou eloquently speaks to an awareness of the heart within us all.
Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, May 1997: Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in The Heart of a Woman she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s. Gather Together in My Name picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man. The Heart of a Woman, the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou's amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.
Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and The Heart of a Woman offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.
The Heart of a Woman is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well.
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