Beauty for Ashes in Stamps, Arkansas
In 1969, Maya Angelou published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what...
This is a contemporary on resilience and voice, drawing on Isaiah 61:1-3.
In 1969, Maya Angelou published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what had silenced her as a child. At seven years old, young Marguerite Johnson was sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend in St. Louis. When the man was found dead shortly after she named him, the little girl believed her own voice had killed him.…
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