My journey with Maya / Tavis Smiley with David Ritz.
2015
PS3551.N464 Z869 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
My journey with Maya / Tavis Smiley with David Ritz.
Author
Smiley, Tavis, 1964- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780316341752 hardcover
0316341754 hardcover
0316341754 hardcover
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3551.N464 Z869 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.5409 B
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.
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Ritz, David, author.
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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.
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.