Bibliograph

My journey with Maya, Tavis Smiley with David Ritz

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My journey with Maya, Tavis Smiley with David Ritz

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My journey with Maya

Oclc number

905623089

Responsibility statement

Tavis Smiley with David Ritz

Summary

Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, accompanied the revered writer on a sojourn to Ghana.--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

The motherland: Taking off ; "The ax forgets, the tree remembers" ; "Frailties and faults" ; "I do not care to dance" ; Living history -- Voices: Reentry ; What's in a name? ; What's in a word? ; The art of listening ; Grace and disgrace -- Courage:Breath ; The good word ; Advocacy versus accountability ; Shower the people

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