I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

And the first is by Andre Lankoff, and he says, to not have your suffering recognized is an almost unspeakable form of violence.

And then you take the great Maya Angelou in her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, when she was raped by her mother's boyfriend who said, if you say anything, I'm going to kill your brother.

She says, there's no greater agony than bearing the weight of an untold story.

Yes.

So everyone who is doing something good.

Maya Angelou I had on, not because—and I helped premiere her book and promote her book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings— because I was also at the same time writing, researching on Black Hollywood, the first book published in America on the history of the African-American experience in Hollywood from its beginning with Anita Bush at the Crimson Skull and coming right through.

And I met by accident at the Schoenberg Library up in Harlem.

a woman who had a cold one day, and I just went over to my health food store, my little health food store on 108th and Broadway, and I brought back a whole big juice and some bottles of supplements, and I said, ma'am, I said...

That said, a judge in the Utah District Court has said the lawsuit against the state can move ahead.

Again, several authors involved here, the estate of Kurt Vonnegut, the estate of Maya Angelou, a poet, her I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was removed from shelves.

here in Utah last year.

And the question here was whether these groups had standing, whether they had in some way been injured by the Utah book ban process.

That's when Dr. Angelou saved my life.

I had a copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

As I read her story, I found someone who understood my feelings.

Our experiences were different, but the feelings were the same.

There's something else in your book that really struck me in terms of discussing beauty.

And it comes about, there's a reference that really reminds me of Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

I don't know if that was on purpose or if you've ever thought about it, but I think of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and has a lot of hope in it.

And your version of the song is what?

You mean...