I Know WHY the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 0553279378 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Minerva101 of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 8/29/2007
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5 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Minerva101 from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
I haven't read this book. I am ruthlessly culling out my bookshelves of books that have been there too long and that I haven't gotten around to reading. I am sure that someone will truly appreciate this book - right now I just have too many other books I really want to read. I am going to send this book away on an adventure to find a reader.

From the Publisher
A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou''s childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women,
Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.

Journal Entry 2 by Minerva101 from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Added to elizardbreath's wrap-it-up bookbox.
I hope the 'un-wrapper' likes their choice :)

Journal Entry 3 by gecko4ever from Rancho Cucamonga, California USA on Thursday, September 20, 2007
Picked out of elizrdbreath's "Wrap It Up" bookbox. Thanks

Journal Entry 4 by gecko4ever from Rancho Cucamonga, California USA on Saturday, September 29, 2007
Going into a Wrap It Up Bookbox. I hope whomever unwraps it enjoys.

Journal Entry 5 by JennyC1230 from Woodstock, Georgia USA on Thursday, October 25, 2007
I got this book out of gecko4ever’s Wrap It Up Bookbox!
Thank you!


Journal Entry 6 by JennyC1230 from Woodstock, Georgia USA on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
After I started reading this book, I realized that I have read it before, but it's so good I had to read it again! Maya Angelou talks about her childhood with honesty and candor. It's an incredible story, living periodically with her grandmother, then her mother, then her grandmother, then her dad, then her mother again. Her only constant friend was her brother Bailey.

Book Description:

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved... Her portrait is a biblical study of life in the midst of death." -- James Baldwin

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book:

"In Stamps, Arkansas the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed. I remember never believing that whites were really real."

People were those who lived on my side of town. I didn't like them all, or in fact any of them very much, but they were people. These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren't considered folks. They were whitefolks."

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense."

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Other copy

Journal Entry 7 by JennyC1230 from Woodstock, Georgia USA on Wednesday, November 4, 2009
This book is in the ABC (Already Been Crossed) Bookbox.

Journal Entry 8 by ladybug74 from Dothan, Alabama USA on Saturday, May 22, 2010
Taking from the ABC bookbox to be released elsewhere so it won't have to travel back to JennyC1230.

Journal Entry 9 by ladybug74 at Wal Mart Southside in Dothan, Alabama USA on Monday, May 31, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (5/31/2010 UTC) at Wal Mart Southside in Dothan, Alabama USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

leaving on a bench inside the grocery side entrance

Journal Entry 10 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Dothan, Alabama USA on Sunday, December 11, 2016
Got this book, I am currently reading it and plan to either keep it or just leave it somewhere for someone else to enjoy. Wow this copy has been all over the world, even outside of the U.S. I'm excited to see where it will go in the future. Definitley a great book

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