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Written & audio book performed by Maya Angelou - Abridged Nonfiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Random House Audio (March 1986)

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"The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a born writer's senses nourished on black church singing and preaching, soft mother talk and salty street talk, and on literature: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Shakespeare and Gorki." --The New York Times Book Review

"Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival." --James Baldwin.

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.