2024-04-19T22:50:02Z https://blues.gr/video/video/listTagged?tag=Maya&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:blues.gr,2013-06-01:1982923:Video:177812 2013-06-01T19:10:41.271Z Michael Limnios Blues Network https://blues.gr/profile/MichalisLimnios

<a href="https://blues.gr/video/i-know-why-the-caged-birds-sing-of-maya-angelou"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2178376202?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcomeracism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to…

<a href="https://blues.gr/video/i-know-why-the-caged-birds-sing-of-maya-angelou"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2178376202?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcomeracism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.<br /> I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,<br /> When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,<br /> When he beats his bars and would be free;<br /> It is not a carol of joy or glee,<br /> But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,<br /> But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –<br /> I know why the caged bird sings