@article{718660, author = {Smiley, Tavis, and Ritz, David,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718660}, title = {My journey with Maya /}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {718660}, pages = {viii, 214 pages ;}, }