(Borrowed from the Jackson Heights Library): Another essay collection from Maya Angelou. A quick read with lasting, valuable wisdom. These brief pieces focus on life lessons written to the daughter Angelou never had and to the women she had treated like daughters throughout her eventful life. We get advice on cultural sensitivity, never giving up, and social etiquette. There are also reflections on Celia Cruz, activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and Coretta Scott King. The most striking piece details a gruesome encounter with with an abusive, jealous boyfriend--it's harrowing and brutal--and fills in some gaps in her six autobiographical books. I'd like to read a bio that takes up where her memoirs leave off.
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