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Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
// Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou
A couple of months ago I read Angelou's collection of essays titled 'Mom & Me & Mom' in which she talks about her relationship with Vivian, her mother. Maya and her brother Bailey were looked after by their paternal grandmother and a disabled uncle Willie until they had to change cities to live with their mother. Vivian was everything Angelou wanted to be. She was smart, confident, sexy and incredibly beautiful. When Angelou becomes a mother herself while still being a teenager, she quickly learns how invaluable her own mother's contribution was in raising a healthy child. Angelou was always a headstrong and an independent woman, never taking financial assistance as she tried living on her own with her son. What she accepted was advice. Both from her mother and her dear grandmother. Letter to my Daughter in turn serves as a great book of wisdom where she traces back her mistakes, learnings and also the necessity of standing on the right side of things.
This book is full of love and comfort. If there's one thing that Angelou stresses upon, it is how one can be wrong and that it is okay to be so unknowingly. Correcting oneself, being humble despite of fame and money, being kind and welcoming love; all these are essentially what she preaches. These essays are short and humorous. She was an incredibly witty woman, one who saw the world and made many friends. There are personal experiences included in this book along with poems and essays and somehow all of this fits together perfectly well. It's impossible to not draw wisdom, inspiration and courage from her story.
This book is rather well made for every single person, irrespective of their gender. To understand the life of such an enigmatic woman should not be denied to anyone. I finished this in a single sitting and by the time I was done flipping over the last page, I fell even more so in love with this woman who never fails to leave me without a hug.
A couple of months ago I read Angelou's collection of essays titled 'Mom & Me & Mom' in which she talks about her relationship with Vivian, her mother. Maya and her brother Bailey were looked after by their paternal grandmother and a disabled uncle Willie until they had to change cities to live with their mother. Vivian was everything Angelou wanted to be. She was smart, confident, sexy and incredibly beautiful. When Angelou becomes a mother herself while still being a teenager, she quickly learns how invaluable her own mother's contribution was in raising a healthy child. Angelou was always a headstrong and an independent woman, never taking financial assistance as she tried living on her own with her son. What she accepted was advice. Both from her mother and her dear grandmother. Letter to my Daughter in turn serves as a great book of wisdom where she traces back her mistakes, learnings and also the necessity of standing on the right side of things.
This book is full of love and comfort. If there's one thing that Angelou stresses upon, it is how one can be wrong and that it is okay to be so unknowingly. Correcting oneself, being humble despite of fame and money, being kind and welcoming love; all these are essentially what she preaches. These essays are short and humorous. She was an incredibly witty woman, one who saw the world and made many friends. There are personal experiences included in this book along with poems and essays and somehow all of this fits together perfectly well. It's impossible to not draw wisdom, inspiration and courage from her story.
This book is rather well made for every single person, irrespective of their gender. To understand the life of such an enigmatic woman should not be denied to anyone. I finished this in a single sitting and by the time I was done flipping over the last page, I fell even more so in love with this woman who never fails to leave me without a hug.