Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

Dedicated to the one she never had, Letter to My Daughter is a series of short texts describing the memories that shaped Maya Angelou's exceptional life. A feminist before her time, and after a childhood and adolescence marked by violence, she wrote with the heart of millions of women she considered her sisters in arms. Literature would save her and lead her to be the first black student in a private school. Then she would frequent the African-American intellectual milieu and become a great activist for the condition of black women. It was thanks to the writer James Baldwin that she would start writing after the death of Martin Luther King and become the author we know today.

In this captivating story, the author shares with us her struggles and the trials that forged her character in compassion and courage.

“She has challenged and inspired millions of Americans to live their lives in more compassionate, courageous and honorable ways.” Hillary Clinton

“For me it’s the power of Maya Angelou’s words, words so powerful that they took a little black girl from the inner city of Chicago to the White House.” Michelle Obama

"She inspired African-American women to dare to turn to writing. She was unfailingly generous. She was a unique and irreplaceable woman." Toni Morrison