Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. One of the sentences I quoted from Letter to My Daughter was:īe certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. And I’m looking forward reading her other books. Days after reading it, I still could feel her words lingered in my mind. Well, it’s quite late reading Angelou’s book after she passed away, but, quoting from her, “People will never forget how you made them feel” and yes, I will never forget how she made me feel. Perhaps it is one of the reasons why it is a page-turner, and I read it in a very short time. Each chapter only consists of short paragraphs, so the readers won’t be tired reading it. The book itself is 192 pages and consists of 28 chapters. Angelou became a proof that one single action could make a change. There was something in her words, something that made me as a reader think thoroughly through life thinking about things that I have and haven’t done and things that I forget and always remember.Īngelou’s past life itself had been a winding road, with ups and downs of struggling to fight racism, and to live among those who believed that black people were less than the Whites. No wonder why she could become one of the greatest female authors of all time.
Finding out these things didn’t mean I was disappointed, but I just was surprised in a delightful way. However, I was surprised because after few pages it turned out to be her autobiography as well as her collection of poems. At first I thought this book would consist of Angelou’s letters to her “daughters” around the world. This is Angelou’s first book I read, and to me her words were all magically powerful.
I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish-speaking, Native American and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.
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