letter to my daughter maya angelou review

Throughout her book, Oprah describes Maya Angelou as her guiding light, her friend, her confidant, and pillar of strength. The novel unraveled and led me to the wisdom that would otherwise take a lifetime to learn… but most importantly of all, this book led me to Maya Angelou! Letter to My Daughter (Review) The book was called “What I know for sure” by Oprah Winfrey, and true to what she said, this book did change me…so much so that I now carry it around everywhere like my very own Bible. She said it had the power to change my life. Many years ago, my mother handed me a book and asked me to read it when I had the time.

Here is my offering to you.Through the crests and troughs of life, if there are two values that see us through, they are Faith & Fortitude. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters.

Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share.

Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Letter to my daughter maya angelou review