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and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant

and affecting voice

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enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her

only they don't

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings American and the holy grail ofMaya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a