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Summary: Her journey through life.
Review: Ms Angelou's A Song Flung Up To Heaven is a collection of her memoirs collaborated together to form this book of great historical events and how they effected her life. I was surprised at some of the events that have taken place in her life and how she chose to handle them. I was also baffled at the lifestyle she was living while networking with some of the black elite entertainers and leaders, which demonstrates it is not what you know but who you know. Ms Angelou hits hardest on her relationships with James Baldwin and the African, whom she never names. Although I thought she should have gone into more detail about her son Guy, she did express her love for him as well as her brother who had a profound affect on her stability as a woman. Ms. Angelou highlighted the Watts riots that took place in the 60's and all though she went into great detail about the riots, I think I may have missed the effects it had on her, nonetheless the actual events were well written and educational. I would definitely recommend this book. Stacy Campbell
Apooo Bookclub
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Summary: A SANKOFA brother.
Review: My Dear Dr.Maya Angelous:
I have just finished reading your A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN. (Which I am recommending to all my friends as a must-read) and thank you for bringing us, your SANKOFA friends, up to date since your return to America... I began reading it this morning around 9:30am and finished at 3:15pm. Only hunger encouraged me to pause long enough to eat lunch, so intensely it had my interest. I had often wondered whatever happened to you and those of us that lived in Ghana before and during the times of Dr. Nkrumah. after our return to America, only a few of us have written of our experiences of living there. I have also read your ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES; but then I've read all your books. I pray you have had time to read my RETURN OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN, which covers my eleven years, (1965 to 1976) of continuous SANKOFA in Ghana and West-Africa. During my SANKOFA there, I was blessed to meet beautiful people like you Dr. Angelou, and other educators such as Professor Julian Mayfield, Dr. Sylvia Boone, Dr. Nell Irvin-Painter, Tom Feelings, Leslie Lacy, Herman Bailey, Dr. Shirley DuBois, Jim Lacy, Dr. Shirley Lewis and of course, Alice Windom. It was Educators like you all, that inspired me to choose this path in life that I now walk... Again, thank you my wonderful soul-sister, for passing my way and inviting me in for some of those wonderful meals you and your peers shared with me. There I would sit, listen, and later make notes. The results is, so far, two non-fiction books... You were all wonderful sources of continuous inspiration for me, as I know you are to many others who read your books... I Love you my Sister. And wish you continuous LOVE, PEACE and HAPPINESS. Sincerely.
Curtis J. Kojo Morrow.
aka Kojo-Achampong PS: My mission as I am sure is yours, is to enlighten the younger generation to the reality, that The Freedom They Now Enjoy, Was Not Free, Others Fought And Died For It.
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Summary: a song flung up to heaven book reaview
Review: Nick short A song flung up to heaven book review
3/4/04 There were a lot of things I found in the book a song flung up to heaven. One of those things I found was that it was very insightful. I learned a lot about the history of blacks and whites in the United States. The chapters in the book could be very complex and sometimes very maundering. Maya Angelo is one of those writers that writes one chapter and explains that chapter in the next. Once you read one chapter she builds it so you can understand the second chapter. From my read prospective and reading level I found the book very easy to understand. The reading was very mature and infer stable. Her style is like a poem except in does not rhyme. The book a song flung up to heaven is an autobiography on a famous and by my option the best poet and writer ever. This book is one of the six books in her series. At the beginning it betrays her life as a black woman on a plan heading for the United States. She is one board a plain full of whites. The time was 1960 and blacks and whites would rage war to each other. Maya is forced to coop with the lost of one of her closed friends Malcolm x at the beginning of t he book. After the death of a close friend Malcolm x Angelou feels there is no reason for her to stay in America, but soon realizes that she needs to be part of the black community and fighting against poverty and saving the rights of blacks and pour people. During the novel she goes many different trials she is forced to understand the truth behind the fact that even blacks can be anti-black. She also talks of a controlling lover from Africa who she says "he tears my heart out of my chest and wars it on his shoulder". This is saying that the lover she had was taking away what she wanted to in life and not allowing her to for fill her wants and needs. She then realizes than she needs to live life for her self and is able to leave him. When Malcolm x died she was very angry and confused do to how they forgot about what contributions he gave to team. Maya angelus is not afraid to use dialoged that may be offensive because she is confident with what she writes. For example- the use of the word "niggard" because she is black and it might help the reader under stand the substance. Maya Angelo is a writer and a person who has fought along with the black community and protected the blacks and pours people what she writes. She is a visionary though her autobiography- miss Angelo shows her option about the angry nature between the blacks and whites. She does this se well that her option becomes our opion.She carried the weight of t h black people on her back. She still supports the pour and black commodity in what she writes in her books and poems.
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Summary: a song flung up to heaven book reaview
Review: Nick short A song flung up to heaven book review
3/4/04 There were a lot of things I found in the book a song flung up to heaven. One of those things I found was that it was very insightful. I learned a lot about the history of blacks and whites in the United States. The chapters in the book could be very complex and sometimes very maundering. Maya Angelo is one of those writers that writes one chapter and explains that chapter in the next. Once you read one chapter she builds it so you can understand the second chapter. From my read prospective and reading level I found the book very easy to understand. The reading was very mature and infer stable. Her style is like a poem except in does not rhyme. The book a song flung up to heaven is an autobiography on a famous and by my option the best poet and writer ever. This book is one of the six books in her series. At the beginning it betrays her life as a black woman on a plan heading for the United States. She is one board a plain full of whites. The time was 1960 and blacks and whites would rage war to each other. Maya is forced to coop with the lost of one of her closed friends Malcolm x at the beginning of t he book. After the death of a close friend Malcolm x Angelou feels there is no reason for her to stay in America, but soon realizes that she needs to be part of the black community and fighting against poverty and saving the rights of blacks and pour people. During the novel she goes many different trials she is forced to understand the truth behind the fact that even blacks can be anti-black. She also talks of a controlling lover from Africa who she says "he tears my heart out of my chest and wars it on his shoulder". This is saying that the lover she had was taking away what she wanted to in life and not allowing her to for fill her wants and needs. She then realizes than she needs to live life for her self and is able to leave him. When Malcolm x died she was very angry and confused do to how they forgot about what contributions he gave to team. Maya angelus is not afraid to use dialoged that may be offensive because she is confident with what she writes. For example- the use of the word "niggard" because she is black and it might help the reader under stand the substance. Maya Angelo is a writer and a person who has fought along with the black community and protected the blacks and pours people what she writes. She is a visionary though her autobiography- miss Angelo shows her option about the angry nature between the blacks and whites. She does this se well that her option becomes our opion.She carried the weight of t h black people on her back. She still supports the pour and black commodity in what she writes in her books and poems.
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Summary: The Best there is
Review: The only complaint that I have on this book is, I wish it lasted longer. I have always loved Miss Angelou's autobiographies starting from "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" until now, and I truly wished she didn't wait so long to put out this installment. I really enjoyed it. Especially when Make' came to the U.S. to take her back to Africa and the events that unfolded after that. I enjoyed it when she and that other old woman double teamed him, yet it seemed as though he turned back his guilt on the ladies though they didn't deserve it. Also, some of the words she put in her book make you want to keep a dictionary close by. In spite of it, I give it 5 stars. Cause it is simply the best. Don't wait too long for the next installment Maya!!
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Summary: Beautiful memoir...
Review: This memoir of Angelou's is beautifully written and extremely poignant. I have only read one other of her memoir's, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" (of which there are several), but this one is written in her young- adulthood (30's) - and has her reactions to the death of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
This book was written in such a way, that i couldn't put it down! I read the whole book in 1 day... and now intend to read some of her other memoirs.
Angelou's writing has inspired many - but her life in itself is a piece of art as well.
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Summary: Still I Rise
Review: THIS POEM WAS THE BEST POEM I HAVE EVER READ AND I LOVE TO READ IT OVER AND OVER SO I GIVE THIS POEM 5 STARS
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Summary: A Final Song
Review: We began following the life of Maya Angelou through her first biography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Now many years and several installments later we conclude with her latest work "A Song Flung Up to Heaven." Although, Angelou focuses primarily on a short span of her life in this book, she reflects over her entire life and at the end of the book the reader will surely feel as if she has come full circle. Angelou's path to success was a rocky one. As a child she was the victim of abuse and her young adult life was far from easy. She shares her experiences with candor and grace, I never felt as if she was telling the glamorized version of her experiences. She shared both her triumphs and her regrets, her successes and her failures. Her writing was conversational, and as I read through this book I felt at times as if we were sitting and chatting. Maya's relationships with such figures as Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., were discussed at length in this novel and several other famous figures were featured with less detail. I appreciated that she didn't "dish dirt" about these people, instead she portrayed the people behind the work for which they were famous. This book continued the journey of Angelou's often difficult life, but I felt like I was left hanging. I respect her decision not to write about writing, but after reading about so many of the difficulties she had to overcome in her life I wanted to hear about her ultimate success as a writer. Still, I appreciated her openness and willingness to share her life's arduous journey with readers. I truly believe that her life symbolizes strength of character and perseverance in a manner that should serve as an inspiration to all, and particularly to women. As such, I highly recommend Maya Angelou's final chapter of her collection of memoirs.--Reviewed by Stacey Seay
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