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My Journey with Maya

By: Tavis Smiley, David Ritz - contributor
Narrated by: Tavis Smiley
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Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou

Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was 21 and she was 58. For the next 28 years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, accompanied the revered writer on a sojourn to Ghana.

Smiley stumbled into a relationship with her that shaped his future and affected the man he became. Like a mother to him, she was generous, challenging, and inspirational - as she was to so many. Here he shares his portrait of Angelou - a highly complex individual who left an indelible imprint on American culture.

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Listening to this story was lie, watching (also living) thro' a film Doc in my Mind.
It took me a while for my ears to adjust to the narrator's north American dialect also American-English use of language. He takes you back on an imaginary time train. Even I had tears in my eyes at the last chapter.
Maya was one of those divine of Souls who were sent down to be a guiding teacher to Earthlings. What a precious gift!💝

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