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Maya Angelou spent her childhood moving between two homes. She was often lonely, and when she was abused by her mother’s boyfriend, sensitive Maya felt guilty and more alone than ever. But with time and a new friend, Maya began to share her thoughts and feelings with other people. Poet, playwright, actress, singer, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou is a role model for women, African Americans, and all Americans. A sensitive yet accessible approach to difficult subjects as well as an introduction to a great figure in our recent history, this book is sure to motivate discussion. ... Read more

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This is a great book for kids to read!It has a lot of information about the great poet Maya Angelou.You learn a lot about all thegreat thingsshe has done in her life and all her tradegies. ... Read more

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ANGELINA LOVES PIZZA. So much so that when she hears that there is a Leaning Tower of Pisa, and mistakenly thinks it’s made of pizzas, she is so distressed that she must go see it for herself! ... Read more

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Listen to this cd
I bought this cd from another store and lost it. I usually don't repurchase cds when I have lost them, but I had to make an exception . . I listen to this album at least once a week or so. It consists of tracks of Angelou reading her poetry, and she reads so beautifully. There are music tracks in between some of the poetry tracks and those work really well. A beautiful way to experience her poems. I'm surprised there aren't tons of reviews on this item! It's a shame if the lack of reviews means that people aren't listening to this. ... Read more

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A selection of poems by Maya Angelou, including her inaugural poem for President Clinton, "On the Pulse of the Morning". Other work by the author includes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Gather Together in My Name", and "I Wouldn't Give Nothing for My Journey Now". ... Read more

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Portrays the life of this multi-faceted African-American poet, author, and educator. ... Read more

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The Title Says It All
This biography on Maya Angelou shows how various trials and accomplishments have shaped her life.What has it shaped her into?More than a poet.Maya is more than a poet and yet human, down to earth.Maya has a very diverse background and diverse accomplishments that many students would be able to relate to.The obstacles she has faced include prejudice, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy, and failed marriages.She is an accomplished writer, poet, playwright, activist, and performer.More Than a Poet moves chronologically throughout her life, showing important events that have made her an influential figure in today's society.

We would recommend this book because of its in-depth and realistic perspective on Angelou's life.We feel that the true-to-life depiction of Angelou's life and accomplishments would bring readers young and old to connect with Angelou as a human being.We would use the book in the sixth grade classroom as it has some mature content (well-handled) and its use of language would be well suited to the sixth grade reader.Perhaps the most effective use of this book would be in a biographical unit, including the study of victories in the face of hardships.

More than a poet
My review of this book is it was a good book and it showed me how one afican american woman in the united state can do so much with her life and. I will like to see more that she show words that will make you fell themand think about what she is saying this book showed me alot of things andshow me what I can do things in life even though the bad times and the goodtimes. ... Read more

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Here is a collection of 100 thought-provoking,hard-hitting essays that excite, inspire, and invigorate. With sly witand profound irony, the essays explore the contradictions of AfricanAmericans, feminists, nationalists, conservatives, and others whilediminishing cherished assumptions about American culture, gender,politics, and economics. Though many may not agree with the thesis ofthe bookeverything is economicthe book will demand an audienceas long as the gender gap exists, as long as people of color areperched at the periphery of our societys economic life, and as longas there is political disenfranchisement. ... Read more

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If Maya likes it, so do I!!!
I just got this book and love Maya Angelou's introduction of Julianne Malveaux.I'm enjoying these essays, as well.I'm more familiar with Julianne Malveaux as a televison commentator than as a writer, but sheseems an equally talented writer as talker!I highly reccomend this book

A must read from one of our best "talking heads".
Julianne Malveaux is one of my favorite talking heads.On CNN, PBS, and MSNBC, she has a feisty "take no prisoners" style of debate.She is unapologetically left and feminist, but she is also quirky, funny, andthought-provoking.This collection of columns is great!She covers lotsof economic issues, deals with women and family issues, and also moralissues.My problem with this book is that the essays are too short, and sois the book.I am waiting to read 200 pages in this wonderful woman'svoice. Some of my favorite columns:the column where she comparesLong Term Capital Management with gamblers; the USA Today column in whichshe talks about buying her home; a rejoinder to the organizers of theMillion Women's March (she is no fan of either theMillion Man or MillionWoman March, and she explains why); a tribute to Betty Shabazz.Thisisn't a book you'll read cover to cover.You'll pick it up and put itdown, and pick it up again.It is so full of facts, opinions, statistics,and provocation that I expect to be using it as a resource for quite sometime.

This Sistah Knows About Black Dollars!!!
Want to know where the money is and isn't being spent, read this book. The Sistah has BIG SKILLS. ... Read more

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With fascinating insights into Maya Angelou's life and creativity, and a shrewd examination of her techniques and recurring themes, Dolly McPherson provides us with a fresh and unusual picture of the celebrated author and her methods. She remarks, too, on Angelou's exceptional ear, her recording of the precise, vivid word and phrase, and on the warmth and humor in her autobiographical writing. The book closes with an interview between these two great friends‹a marvelous epilogue to this portrait of an immensely gifted, greatly admired woman. ... Read more

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The Inaugural poet, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, unites with a renowned illustrator for a poetic tribute to the extraordinary essence of ordinary African-American women. Reissue. ... Read more

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Nothing else in life compares to the one-of-a-kind bond mothers have with their children. Filled with more than 400 heartfelt reflections from such luminaries as Sylvia Plath, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Tyler, and Amy Tan, All About Mom is a wise, witty, touching, and always honest look at what it really means to be mom.
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With contributions as diverse as Black Elk’s Native American spirituality, Frederick Douglass’s religious condemnation of slaveholding, and Mary McCarthy’s agnostic uncertainty, Memoirs of the Spirit captures America’s soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.

Each of the twenty-six autobiographical reflections is prefaced by a brief biographical introduction by editor Edwin Gaustad and full-page portrait of its author, if available. Together, these chapters illustrate the wide range of faiths coloring American history: conservative and liberal Protestantism, conservative and liberal Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others. Memoirs of the Spirit offers an enlightening view of America’s rich religious past—and suggests the multiplicity that is America’s religious future.

Spiritual autobiographies by:Mary RowlandsonJonathan EdwardsBenjamin RushRichard AllenPeter CartwrightOrestes BrownsonFrederick DouglassIsaac Mayer WiseBlack Elk

Harry Emerson FosdickJohn LaFargeMary AntinReinhold NiebuhrParamahansa YoganandaBenjamin E. MaysDorothy DayMary McCarthyVirginia SorensonThomas MertonAlan WattsBilly GrahamJimmy CarterWilliam F. Buckley Jr.Maya AngelouBarbara G. HarrisonRichard Rodriguez ... Read more

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Presents the life and accomplishments of the gifted black writer, the second poet in American history to deliver an inaugural poem, revealing how she has triumphed over many personal troubles and public obstacles. ... Read more

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Maya Angelou Greeting The Morning
This summary is about Maya's African American poets and her life. It describes her wanting to become a famous writer. This book also talks about racism in her life She went through a lot in her life at an early age.

A good introduction to an extraordinary woman
Maya Angelou has been a vivid cultural presence as an autobiographer, poet, and performer. In "Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning," Sarah E. King has written a fine biography of this remarkable individual. Directed towards younger readers, King's book combines a straightforward text with many photographs of Angelou's life and times.

"Maya" begins with Angelou's birth in 1928 and ends with her historic delivery of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the 1993 inauguration of United States President Bill Clinton. Along the way, we learn how the girl born as "Marguerite Johnson" got the distinctive name by which she is known today. King also handles the subject of childhood sexual abuse, of which Angelou is a survivor, with honesty and sensitivity.

Angelou's is a fascinating life story. King documents her early family life, her own life as a mother, her career in the entertainment industry, her contributions to the civil rights movement, and her experiences in Africa. We also learn of her emergence as a well-known writer with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," the first volume of Angelou's wonderful multi-part autobiography.

Hopefully, young readers who are fascinated by this biography will want to explore Angelou's own writings. Sarah King has written a good resource for young people who are interested in autobiography, women's studies, and African-American writers. ... Read more

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Pichon: Another Fake Memoir!
Pichon, A Memoir: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba, written by Carlos Moore, is claimed by its author to be "a firsthand account of the most pivotal moments of twentieth-century politics as well as a chronicle of the development of political and race consciousness and the search for purpose in life." It also claims to be an "account of the domestic and international intrigue that flows from Moore's pursuit of racial justice in the shadow of the Cold War."
Moore calls it a memoir. His literary agent, publisher, distributors and speaker's bureau coordinator market it as factual. However, critical relationships and events representing the essence and core of the memoir, which are presented as historical facts appear to be and/or, are imaginary, fabricated, embellished and exaggerated.

It is a fake memoir, fiction, a novel at best. It is misery literature, an all too familiar saga of Moore's triumph over poverty, racism, xenophobia and childhood physical abuse by his mother in Cuba, and his "escape" to the United States. It is a stereotypical expose of the discovery of his "black manhood" through spontaneous and uninhibited liaisons with European (white) women in Greenwich Village and the Movement. Predictably, these sexual "conquests" began as a 17 year old high school student. His "machismo" however, does not permit him to admit that these liaisons, especially with high school teachers, are legally classified as rape and pedophilia, then and now.

It is "black nationalist" literature, in its most right-wing and perverted form, anti-communist and anti-Castro. Moore became a Marxist, in less than 10 months, through "pillow talk" with his European lover, and through attendance at several movement meetings, not through systematic study of this revolutionary ideology and work. He rediscovers his Cuban roots after the victory of the Cuban Revolution. According to him, he was the only African in the July 26th Movement's network in New York. He did not join it or any political organization. However; he exploited his African and Cuban roots and enthusiastically accepted their invitation to speak on their behalf, especially to African audiences in Harlem.

It is spy literature, laced with a moderate dose of international adventure and intrigue. It is a dinosaur, a fossilized relic of the Cold War and the FBI directed COINTELPRO of the 1960s and 1970s. It attempts, though fails, to follow in the foot steps of the I Spy and Mission Impossible television series that captured the imagination of a generation of ghetto youth, including this author, from 1965 through 1972. We knew however, that these television programs were fiction, were entertainment. We do not know how to describe Pichon: fact or fiction? The characters played by Bill Cosby and Greg Morris in I Spy and Mission Impossible respectively, were believable. They were the right age, had the right experience, and had plausible means of support, as they traveled all over the world, pretending to not be agents of the CIA. The relationships they developed and events they participated in, though fictional, were believable.

Moore, the central character in Pichon, is not believable. He was too young, inexperienced, brash and arrogant, and no one can honestly believe that he did what he claims to have done, at the time he claimed to have done it, without an organized, well-funded, international network of support, whether he was conscious of that network or not. The relationships he parades on page after page of Pichon, and the events he claims to have participated in appear to be fictional as well, exaggerated and /or embellished.

Pichon holds Maya Angelou's imprimatur and golden seal of approval. Maya interviewed and marketed Moore on Oprah's radio station. Unfortunately, Oprah has been burned at least three times for promoting erroneous memoirs. They include James Frey (A Million Little Pieces), Anthony Godgy Johns (A Rock and A Hard Place) and Herman Rosenblatt (Angel at a Fence). Their editors, publishers and marketers did not check the facts before publication, or complete the vetting process that serious magazines and journalists do. Subsequent research proved these books to be fiction, novels at best.

However, Pichon is different. Its intent is much more sinister. Unlike these other books, it has a political objective: the mobilization of Moore's support, inside and outside of Cuba, to enable and empower him to lead the overthrow of the Cuban government and socialism, and the restoration of capitalism, under the guise of "affirmative action" and the inauguration of an African-led and controlled "democracy." He is attempting to position himself to become another Barack Obama, Cuba's first African president, or an African king-maker or queen-maker at least. Moore's political credibility however, rests on a foundation of half-truths and lies--by omission and commission, fabrications, embellishments and exaggerations. History confirms that the Yoruba proverb is correct: "A lie may run for a year, but the truth will catch it in a day!"

TRUTH HAS CAUGHT CARLOS MOORE'S LIES!
(1) Moore Admits Telling Lies
(2) Moore Omits Details about FBI and CIA Penetration of the FPCC
(3) Moore Omits Details about CIA Penetration of the Guinean Mission to the UN
(4) Moore Omits Details about Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi
(5) Moore Fabricates Details about the pro-Lumumba Demonstration at the UN
(6) Moore Omits Key Details about His Provocations in Cuba
(7) Moore Omits Key Details about His Relationship with Jonas Savimbi
(8) Moore Fabricates a Relationship with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

Carlos Moore is a self-admitted and habitual liar. Pichon is a fake memoir. It is a novel at best, where relationships and events are embellished and exaggerated, and where half-truths and lies---by omission and commission, are repeatedly told. Marketing fiction as non-fiction is fraud---consumer fraud.

WE DEMAND!

We demand that Pichon's editor, publisher, distributors, speaker's bureau coordinator, literary agent and Maya Angelou verify its facts, as they should have done before publication. We demand an apology and a retraction of all of the lies that Moore has told, especially the lies he told about Kwame Ture and his relationship to the Cuban Revolution. We also demand that Pichon's distribution and sales be stopped, that it be recalled, and that any and all money that has been received through book sales and speaking engagements be reimbursed, fully and immediately. It is better, and more honest, to repackage and market Pichon as fiction, as a novel, if at all.

Bob Brown
info@a-aprp-gc.org

Disclosing the "race" issue in Communist Cuba
Greetings, for once an individual besides myself, has shed light on the so-called issue of "race" in pre and (as well as) presently in Communist Cuba.

Dr. Moore, has disclosed [in this book] the issue of race and it's inequities that reside on the island where many "so-called" white and mulattos liberals Cubans, fail or hide to disclose the issue. I, myself (Cuban-born), described as an African Caribbean of cinnamon-brown hue, and as Africancentric Cultural Nationalist, knows of the veiled racism or the arrogance of many Cubans have towards their darker co-denizens. And although, Fidel or Raul and company, have have testified that, 'racism in Communist Cuba, does not exist." The venom of racism, either, has subsided or has never gone away, totally.

Dr. Moore, has written about his youth and post-pubescent years living in Cuba and took an issue that had to be dealt since ther Batista administartion and prior. He also writes of his epiphany of his Africanness, while in NY which shed his intelligence to view pride of his "blackness" as well as of/and about the
presences of African heros & sheroes (not Spaniards, Afro Latino/Latin. Or, Afro/Black Hispanic), in the Caribbean.

This book, should be translated into the various European languages of Spanish, French, etc.,. But mainly, many African descedant Cubans, should read this book, and take solidarity with their African descedants through the Diaspora of the race issue still existing within this Western hemisphere.

Thank you, Ali Abdul Perez

Eye Opening Account of Racism in Cuba
I am African American and had an idealized view of Cuba.This was eye-opening.I would not have imagined that this much racism went on in Cuba.The writter's account of his own self hatred was unusually truthful and detailed.It read like a novel and was very enlightening.

Eye opening
This book gives an insight into Castro's Cuba from an honest perspective I never thought I'd see.Castro had such an opportunity to be fair with all of his countrymen, but because of his entrenched racism and short-sightedness, he was unable or unwilling to see the pain and hurt and devastation that he caused.The very fact that Carlos Moore was able to survive the constant murderous assaults when he spoke truth to power is a fascinating and intriguing tale.

Another Point of View
This is a very well written and informative book, which gives another side of Castros's Cuba and the whole racial identity. ... Read more

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A TALL GIRL who is afraid of heights? When Renée Marie's class takes a trip to the Eiffel Tower, she would much rather stay with her feet on the ground than go up to the top! ... Read more

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Maya's World - Renee Marie of France
Four-year-old Cassie loves the Maya's World books, especially Renee Marie of France.The books are a delight for all ages. ... Read more

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