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There’s the other part of me that wants to share her message, abounding in beauty, grief, tenderness, joy, life lessons overflowing with wisdom, faith. There’s part of me that just wants to hold onto this lovely little gem of a book, to just hold onto these words a little longer in the hopes they’ll more thoroughly permeate my soul. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow.' Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. 'The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. It's a quick read but also one that can be savored over a period of days as each snippet offers a distinct little lesson in life. I don't own this book, but that is exactly what I would like to do once I get my hands on my own copy. Gosh, I know I could use an extra dose of some of these sentiments from time to time! This is the kind of book one should keep by the bedside, grab it on a bad day, and open up to a favorite passage for a bit of healing. She was forward thinking, self-possessed and conveyed an attitude of hopefulness and positivity. I love her style and her humor – she was undoubtedly one classy woman who despised vulgarity and encouraged humility and simplicity. She shares some of her most touching life stories, divulges words of wisdom, and muses on those topics which stand as the most relevant and meaningful to her.

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This is a lovely series of Maya Angelou's essays dedicated to all women of the world. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish-speaking, Native American and Aleut.

'I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. Here is my offering to you.”-from Letter to My Daughter You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

For its 2023 iteration, LeVar Burton was tapped as the award show's host, with Winfrey serving as a special guest. The event offers cash awards, medals and other prizes to finalists and winners, which are selected by a team of '25 distinguished writers, translators, critics, librarians and booksellers,' per the ceremony's official website. The National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner has existed as a celebration of the best writers in the U.S. Winfrey went on to explain that before reading the book she “didn't know that there was a language, there were words for what had happened to me or that any other human being on earth had experienced it,” adding, “That's the power of books.” “It gave words to my pain and my confusion of being raped at nine years old.” “That book gave a voice to my silences, my secrets,” Winfrey said.

The former talk show host added that it was the first book she had read as a 15-year-old that had a Black protagonist.

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Related: Oprah Calls Salary for Original Color Purple Movie the ‘Best $35,000 I Ever Earned’ Daniel Boczarski/Getty Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou pictured at the United Center on in Chicago, Illinois

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