Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou offers inspirational wisdom through a collection of stories and essays dedicated to the daughter she never had. With its unique layout of genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry and pure delight, Angelou reveals a path to living well and living a life of meaning to the millions of women she considered her extended family.
“I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish-speaking, Native American and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you,” Anglou said of Letter to My Daughter
