Maya Angelou The voice of contemporary literature

Part Five: Into Africa

Date of Review: 
05/11/1986
Reviewer: 
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Source: 
The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

... What is most remarkable is not her success, but her candid admissions of failure and her indisputable certainty that only a unique black spiritual heritage has carried her beyond it. Repeatedly, she summons the folk wisdom of her mother and her church-going grandmother as solace. ...