A youth caught in the "tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate, and Black lack of power." For a very similar but contemporary and urban narrative of this multivariate crossfire turn to Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Beautiful Struggle. Written when Angelou was eighty, and full of love and forgiveness, it is easy to imagine the intended audience of Letter to My Daughter is actually Angelou’s own young self-so perfectly sketched in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.
I have all along known that I wanted to tell you directly of some lessons I have learned and under what conditions I have learned them. This letter has taken an extraordinary time getting itself together. Maya Angelou (Ap– May 28, 2014), a poet, activist, and writer, penned Letter to My Daughter in 2008 as a series of letters to the collective daughters she's nurtured and inspired throughout her life. I imagine for Maya Angelou it would be a task of unloading things pressed upon her heart. “How can I tell you Everything in my Heart?" asked illustrator Maira Kalman, heaving out her curious, observational mind into pictures and words.
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