All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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by Dr Maya Angelou (Author)
Format: Paperback / softback 240 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781844085057
Published: 10 Aug 1987

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.

In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . .

. She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States.

She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original.

There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

Maya Angelou's Autobiography Series Order. Below is the recommended reading order.
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book
2. Gather Together in My Name Book
3. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas Book
4. The Heart of a Woman Book
5. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Book
6. A Song Flung Up to Heaven Book
7. Mom & Me & Mom Book

by Dr Maya Angelou (Author)
Format: Paperback / softback 240 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781844085057
Published: 10 Aug 1987

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.

In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . .

. She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States.

She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original.

There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

Maya Angelou's Autobiography Series Order. Below is the recommended reading order.
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book
2. Gather Together in My Name Book
3. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas Book
4. The Heart of a Woman Book
5. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Book
6. A Song Flung Up to Heaven Book
7. Mom & Me & Mom Book