Letter to My Daughter (9 page)

Copyright © 2008 by Maya Angelou

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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.

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“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.

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Excerpt from “Dark Symphony” from
Rendezvous with America
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944). Originally published in
Atlantic Monthly
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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.

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