My journey with Maya / Tavis Smiley with David Ritz.
| Author/creator | Smiley, Tavis, 1964- author. |
| Other author | Ritz, David author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little--360690--3051310666930 |
| LCCN | 2015933793 |
| ISBN | 9780316341752 |
| ISBN | 0316341754 |