“I was 15 when I read my first book with a black hero, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Chirps, and my whole world fell apart,” she said.
Oprah Winfrey reveals how a book by the late Dr. Maya Angelou helped her process the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
Speaking at the 74th National Book Awards and Benefit Dinner in New York, Winfrey in her speech referred to how Angelou’s 1969 book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”helped her give “voice to my pain and confusion.”
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“I was 15 when I read my first book with a black hero, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Chirps, and my whole world fell apart. It gave words to my pain and confusion about being raped at age nine».
Winfrey went on to explain that before reading the book “I didn’t know there was language, there were words for what had happened to me or that any other person on Earth had experienced it,” adding: “That’s the power of books». Angelou died in 2014 at the age of 86.
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