Rent Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Synopsis

Now 69, Angelou is the nearest thing America has to a sacred institution, a high priestess of culture and love....Angelou's lifelong effort to escape and expose the 'national, racial and historical hallucinations' that have burdened black women in America and replace them with a shining exemplar of power, achievement and generosity of spirit is as miraculous as she says it is, even if one suspects that in 'real life' Angelou must be a little hard to take....Her essays make beautifully easy reading, warm, inspiring and reassuring to a fault. Only a cynic, a smaller mind than Angelou's, could fail to welcome the gifts she offers.

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