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A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS `A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman` BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that`s where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of `Jimmy` Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America`s most impressive memoir writers. `She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds` OPRAH WINFREY `She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate` TONI MORRISON
