Smiley, Tavis 1964- Friends and associates Search this
Physical description:
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Date:
2015
20th century
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
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.
