Free Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou Page A

Peace
    Mother
    Celebrations
    CHILDREN’S BOOKS
    My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
    Kofi and His Magic
    PICTURE BOOKS
    Now Sheba Sings the Song
    Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
    COOKBOOK
    Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

Copyright © 2008 by Maya Angelou

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    Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

    Mari Evans:
Excerpt from “I Am a Black Woman” from
I Am a Black Woman
by Mari Evans (New York: William Morrow, 1970). Reprinted by permission of Mari Evans.
    Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Harold Ober Associates:
    “I, Too” and “Dream Variations” from
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Russell, associate editor, copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Rights in the United Kingdom are controlled by Harold Ober Associates. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and Harold Ober Associates.
    Melvin B. Tolson, Jr. c/o The Permissions Company:
Excerpt from “Dark Symphony” from
Rendezvous with America
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944). Originally published in
Atlantic Monthly
(September 1941), copyright © 1941, 1944 by Melvin B. Tolson and copyright renewed 1968, 1972 by Ruth S. Tolson. Reprinted by permission of Melvin B. Tolson, Jr. c/o The Permissions Company, www.permissionscompany.com .

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    Angelou, Maya.
    Letter to my daughter / Maya Angelou.
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    1. Angelou, Maya. 2. Authors, American—Homes and haunts—New York (State)—New York. 3. African American authors—Biography. 4. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. I. Title.
    PS 3551. N 464 Z 468 2008
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