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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Angelou's first memoir: childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, trauma, silence, and the recovery of her voice through literature. One of the great American autobiographies.
Read it if…
you want a story of finding voice after silence.
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Skip it if…
you cannot read about childhood abuse.
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Three things you will actually use
- Words can restore you.
- Dignity under injustice.
- Find your Mrs. Flowers.
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Finding her voice.
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