Maya Angelou's "Mom & Me & Mom": A Heartfelt Cry for Mothers
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Maya Angelou (shown here at a talk at the Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas on February 12, 1995) pays tribute to her mother in the final installment of her memoir BRIAN JONES / HANDOUT / EPA/MAXPPP
In the final installment of her memoirs, American Maya Angelou pays a vibrant tribute to the woman who brought her into the world.
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I subscribeHer mother sent her away to live far away for a long time, and yet Maya Angelou pays her a heartfelt tribute of love in this wonderful portrait. Nowhere does it bear a trace of bitterness at having been entrusted, between the ages of 3 and 10, to the care of her paternal grandmother in Arkansas, some 2,500 kilometers from the one who brought her into the world. On the contrary, admiration and gratitude for Vivian Baxter, aka "Lady," as the American author called her, make its pages vibrate.
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