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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Maya Angelou

Why we're reading this: Because it's high time I read it, but willing to wait until 2016 to have it count in my challenge.…more
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Feb 27, 2013 Litsplaining rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoirs, read-in-2015, autobiography-autobiographical, recommended, audiobook, traveling, coming-of-age, books-about-characters-with-health, thought-provoking, own-a-copy

I feel like it's hard to really rate this book as of now when I haven't read the other books in the series, but I'm going to put this read at 3.5 stars since I did enjoy the overall anecdotes that Maya Angelou shared with the readers.

It's amazing also how relevant the constant questioning by Bailey and Maya as children of "why do [whites] hate us so much?" still is in today's society when it comes to race relations even though the context of the question has changed. This can be seen in the pick ...more

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