My journey with Maya /
Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, mus...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The motherland: Taking off ; "The ax forgets, the tree remembers" ; "Frailties and faults" ; "I do not care to dance" ; Living history
- Voices: Reentry ; What's in a name? ; What's in a word? ; The art of listening ; Grace and disgrace
- Courage:Breath ; The good word ; Advocacy versus accountability ; Shower the people.