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A selection of poems by Maya Angelou, including her inaugural poem for President Clinton, "On the Pulse of the Morning". Other work by the author includes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Gather Together in My Name", and "I Wouldn't Give Nothing for My Journey Now". ... Read more

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* An anthology of writings by some of the most influential women in history on the often misunderstood and misrepresented female drug experience.* With great honesty, bravery, and frankness, women from diverse backgrounds write about their drug experiences.

Women have been experimenting with drugs since prehistoric times, and yet published accounts of their views on the drug experience have been relegated to either antiseptic sociological studies or sensationalized stories splashed across the tabloids. The media has given us an enduring, but inaccurate, stereotype of a female drug user: passive, addicted, exploited, degraded, promiscuous. But the selections in this anthology--penned by such famous names as Billie Holiday, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou, and Carrie Fisher--show us that the real experiences of women are anything but stereotypical.

Sisters of the Extreme provides us with writings by women from diverse occupations and backgrounds, from prostitute to physician, who through their use of drugs dared cross the boundaries set by society--often doing so with the hope of expanding themselves and their vision of the world. Whether with LSD, peyote, cocaine, heroine, MDMA, or marijuana, these women have sought to reach, through their experimentation, other levels of consciousness. Sometimes their quests have brought unexpected rewards, other times great suffering and misfortune. But wherever their trips have left them, these women have lived courageously--if sometimes dangerously--and written about their journeys eloquently. ... Read more

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SISTERS Give The Wildest Ride
Being on the fringe of consensual reality and yet being able to take some notes of the journeys beyond, is an awesome gift.The stories in SISTERS OF THE EXTREME are such gifts of the God-Us. I have the original SHAMAN WOMAN, MAINLINE LADY and went through my contribution, line for line, and the only difference noted was my photo had shrunk in this new, revised edition.(This is consistent as now, being in my fifties, I notice that I am shrinking some also.)The tone not only is consistent from the first edition but vividly expansive.(I was somewhat embarrassed being in the first edition, with the stereotypic cover -- yet in this new volume, I am honored not only for the outrageous company kept and new sisters included but engaging graphics.)

As the God-Us dances about the universe, skirt swirling the galaxies, being on the fringes gives the wildest ride.This book is a travelogue by explorers of multi-dimensional realities written in white ink, from the heart of our Sisters-in-the-Clan-of-Encouragement:this book is a major herstoric contribution to the sext of human consciousness.

Jeannine Parvati (Baker) Author HYGIEIA: A WOMAN'S HERBAL

A fine survey of women whose lives were changed by drugs.
Sisters Of The Extreme is an informative and engaging presentation of famous female authors who write about the drug experience includes avariety of works from such notables as Bronte, Alcott, Di Prima, and more.Writings from historical works through modern times are gathered in SistersOf The Extreme, a fine survey of the lives and experiences of women whohave had their lives changed by drugs.

Stick with the original. It's better.
Let's get one thing straight right off the bat, Sisters of the Extreme is a "reissue" of 1982's Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady -- cut, streamlined and reformatted beyond all recognition. Evidently, the authorstook the edge off their book for a more "conservative" era --either that, or they assume their reader's minds have been so numbed bydrugs that we NEED heavy edits and People Magazine-inspired"look" to hold our limited attention.

Sure, there are a coupleof new excerpts worth reading (the one from Mary Woronov's "The MolePeople is revealing), but for the most part, Sisters of the Extreme seemsto be pandering to old YUPPIES who need a little stimulation. I swear thatif I read ANYTHING by Carrie Fisher ever again, it will be too soon --enough of the "I went to rehab and got a bad haircut" trip.Getover it.

In the introduction, the authors do say that they edited someexcerpts for space and deleted others all together. When I got out the twoeditions and compared them almost line for line, I discovered a disturbingtrend -- whereas Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady allowed one to take thewritings at face value, Sisters of the Extreme has definite agenda. Sistersof the Extreme doesn't LIKE drugs. It doesn't want ME to like drugs. Itwants me to be TITILATED by the writings. The difference isclear.

Sisters of the Extreme is a product of the times. It's been dumbeddown and punched up. Sure, the authors include a couple of writings on sexmagick and a few counter culture cartoons, but the overall smell ofpolitical correctness is stupifying.

The gist of my review is this: ifdon't already own a copy of Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady, go ahead and buySisters of the Extreme. Then, go on a quest for the Real Thing.

In themeantime, the use bibliography in Sisters of the Extreme to find and readthe original sourced writings. You'll be glad you did. ... Read more

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Portrays the life of this multi-faceted African-American poet, author, and educator. ... Read more

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The Title Says It All
This biography on Maya Angelou shows how various trials and accomplishments have shaped her life.What has it shaped her into?More than a poet.Maya is more than a poet and yet human, down to earth.Maya has a very diverse background and diverse accomplishments that many students would be able to relate to.The obstacles she has faced include prejudice, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy, and failed marriages.She is an accomplished writer, poet, playwright, activist, and performer.More Than a Poet moves chronologically throughout her life, showing important events that have made her an influential figure in today's society.

We would recommend this book because of its in-depth and realistic perspective on Angelou's life.We feel that the true-to-life depiction of Angelou's life and accomplishments would bring readers young and old to connect with Angelou as a human being.We would use the book in the sixth grade classroom as it has some mature content (well-handled) and its use of language would be well suited to the sixth grade reader.Perhaps the most effective use of this book would be in a biographical unit, including the study of victories in the face of hardships.

More than a poet
My review of this book is it was a good book and it showed me how one afican american woman in the united state can do so much with her life and. I will like to see more that she show words that will make you fell themand think about what she is saying this book showed me alot of things andshow me what I can do things in life even though the bad times and the goodtimes. ... Read more

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With fascinating insights into Maya Angelou's life and creativity, and a shrewd examination of her techniques and recurring themes, Dolly McPherson provides us with a fresh and unusual picture of the celebrated author and her methods. She remarks, too, on Angelou's exceptional ear, her recording of the precise, vivid word and phrase, and on the warmth and humor in her autobiographical writing. The book closes with an interview between these two great friends‹a marvelous epilogue to this portrait of an immensely gifted, greatly admired woman. ... Read more

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Maya Angelou's five-volume autobiography transcends the autobiographical tradition, enriching it with contemporary experience, African American vision, and female sensibility. With these five books, Angelou has created a work of epic scope that covers a quarter century of American and African American history, from the beginning of World War II to the civil rights movement. These volumes stretch over time and place, from Arkansas to Africa, as Angelou grows from a confused child in a Southern town to an accomplished adult. Throughout her life journey depicted in the autobiographies, Angelou grapples with the issues of motherhood and race and reveals the struggles of being a black mother in America, extending her perspective in the fourth and fifth volumes to encompass an African setting. ... Read more

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Thorough and accurate biography
I liked the way Lupton treated the double themes of race and motherhood.The book was thorough and accurate.

Heart-warming and touching
This book was very good.I liked the way the author described each moment in Maya's life.I'd just like to say that if anyone wants a good biography this is it. ... Read more

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Presents the life and accomplishments of the gifted black writer, the second poet in American history to deliver an inaugural poem, revealing how she has triumphed over many personal troubles and public obstacles. ... Read more

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Maya Angelou Greeting The Morning
This summary is about Maya's African American poets and her life. It describes her wanting to become a famous writer. This book also talks about racism in her life She went through a lot in her life at an early age.

A good introduction to an extraordinary woman
Maya Angelou has been a vivid cultural presence as an autobiographer, poet, and performer. In "Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning," Sarah E. King has written a fine biography of this remarkable individual. Directed towards younger readers, King's book combines a straightforward text with many photographs of Angelou's life and times.

"Maya" begins with Angelou's birth in 1928 and ends with her historic delivery of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the 1993 inauguration of United States President Bill Clinton. Along the way, we learn how the girl born as "Marguerite Johnson" got the distinctive name by which she is known today. King also handles the subject of childhood sexual abuse, of which Angelou is a survivor, with honesty and sensitivity.

Angelou's is a fascinating life story. King documents her early family life, her own life as a mother, her career in the entertainment industry, her contributions to the civil rights movement, and her experiences in Africa. We also learn of her emergence as a well-known writer with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," the first volume of Angelou's wonderful multi-part autobiography.

Hopefully, young readers who are fascinated by this biography will want to explore Angelou's own writings. Sarah King has written a good resource for young people who are interested in autobiography, women's studies, and African-American writers. ... Read more

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Nothing else in life compares to the one-of-a-kind bond mothers have with their children. Filled with more than 400 heartfelt reflections from such luminaries as Sylvia Plath, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Tyler, and Amy Tan, All About Mom is a wise, witty, touching, and always honest look at what it really means to be mom.
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Pichon: Another Fake Memoir!
Pichon, A Memoir: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba, written by Carlos Moore, is claimed by its author to be "a firsthand account of the most pivotal moments of twentieth-century politics as well as a chronicle of the development of political and race consciousness and the search for purpose in life." It also claims to be an "account of the domestic and international intrigue that flows from Moore's pursuit of racial justice in the shadow of the Cold War."
Moore calls it a memoir. His literary agent, publisher, distributors and speaker's bureau coordinator market it as factual. However, critical relationships and events representing the essence and core of the memoir, which are presented as historical facts appear to be and/or, are imaginary, fabricated, embellished and exaggerated.

It is a fake memoir, fiction, a novel at best. It is misery literature, an all too familiar saga of Moore's triumph over poverty, racism, xenophobia and childhood physical abuse by his mother in Cuba, and his "escape" to the United States. It is a stereotypical expose of the discovery of his "black manhood" through spontaneous and uninhibited liaisons with European (white) women in Greenwich Village and the Movement. Predictably, these sexual "conquests" began as a 17 year old high school student. His "machismo" however, does not permit him to admit that these liaisons, especially with high school teachers, are legally classified as rape and pedophilia, then and now.

It is "black nationalist" literature, in its most right-wing and perverted form, anti-communist and anti-Castro. Moore became a Marxist, in less than 10 months, through "pillow talk" with his European lover, and through attendance at several movement meetings, not through systematic study of this revolutionary ideology and work. He rediscovers his Cuban roots after the victory of the Cuban Revolution. According to him, he was the only African in the July 26th Movement's network in New York. He did not join it or any political organization. However; he exploited his African and Cuban roots and enthusiastically accepted their invitation to speak on their behalf, especially to African audiences in Harlem.

It is spy literature, laced with a moderate dose of international adventure and intrigue. It is a dinosaur, a fossilized relic of the Cold War and the FBI directed COINTELPRO of the 1960s and 1970s. It attempts, though fails, to follow in the foot steps of the I Spy and Mission Impossible television series that captured the imagination of a generation of ghetto youth, including this author, from 1965 through 1972. We knew however, that these television programs were fiction, were entertainment. We do not know how to describe Pichon: fact or fiction? The characters played by Bill Cosby and Greg Morris in I Spy and Mission Impossible respectively, were believable. They were the right age, had the right experience, and had plausible means of support, as they traveled all over the world, pretending to not be agents of the CIA. The relationships they developed and events they participated in, though fictional, were believable.

Moore, the central character in Pichon, is not believable. He was too young, inexperienced, brash and arrogant, and no one can honestly believe that he did what he claims to have done, at the time he claimed to have done it, without an organized, well-funded, international network of support, whether he was conscious of that network or not. The relationships he parades on page after page of Pichon, and the events he claims to have participated in appear to be fictional as well, exaggerated and /or embellished.

Pichon holds Maya Angelou's imprimatur and golden seal of approval. Maya interviewed and marketed Moore on Oprah's radio station. Unfortunately, Oprah has been burned at least three times for promoting erroneous memoirs. They include James Frey (A Million Little Pieces), Anthony Godgy Johns (A Rock and A Hard Place) and Herman Rosenblatt (Angel at a Fence). Their editors, publishers and marketers did not check the facts before publication, or complete the vetting process that serious magazines and journalists do. Subsequent research proved these books to be fiction, novels at best.

However, Pichon is different. Its intent is much more sinister. Unlike these other books, it has a political objective: the mobilization of Moore's support, inside and outside of Cuba, to enable and empower him to lead the overthrow of the Cuban government and socialism, and the restoration of capitalism, under the guise of "affirmative action" and the inauguration of an African-led and controlled "democracy." He is attempting to position himself to become another Barack Obama, Cuba's first African president, or an African king-maker or queen-maker at least. Moore's political credibility however, rests on a foundation of half-truths and lies--by omission and commission, fabrications, embellishments and exaggerations. History confirms that the Yoruba proverb is correct: "A lie may run for a year, but the truth will catch it in a day!"

TRUTH HAS CAUGHT CARLOS MOORE'S LIES!
(1) Moore Admits Telling Lies
(2) Moore Omits Details about FBI and CIA Penetration of the FPCC
(3) Moore Omits Details about CIA Penetration of the Guinean Mission to the UN
(4) Moore Omits Details about Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi
(5) Moore Fabricates Details about the pro-Lumumba Demonstration at the UN
(6) Moore Omits Key Details about His Provocations in Cuba
(7) Moore Omits Key Details about His Relationship with Jonas Savimbi
(8) Moore Fabricates a Relationship with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

Carlos Moore is a self-admitted and habitual liar. Pichon is a fake memoir. It is a novel at best, where relationships and events are embellished and exaggerated, and where half-truths and lies---by omission and commission, are repeatedly told. Marketing fiction as non-fiction is fraud---consumer fraud.

WE DEMAND!

We demand that Pichon's editor, publisher, distributors, speaker's bureau coordinator, literary agent and Maya Angelou verify its facts, as they should have done before publication. We demand an apology and a retraction of all of the lies that Moore has told, especially the lies he told about Kwame Ture and his relationship to the Cuban Revolution. We also demand that Pichon's distribution and sales be stopped, that it be recalled, and that any and all money that has been received through book sales and speaking engagements be reimbursed, fully and immediately. It is better, and more honest, to repackage and market Pichon as fiction, as a novel, if at all.

Bob Brown
info@a-aprp-gc.org

Disclosing the "race" issue in Communist Cuba
Greetings, for once an individual besides myself, has shed light on the so-called issue of "race" in pre and (as well as) presently in Communist Cuba.

Dr. Moore, has disclosed [in this book] the issue of race and it's inequities that reside on the island where many "so-called" white and mulattos liberals Cubans, fail or hide to disclose the issue. I, myself (Cuban-born), described as an African Caribbean of cinnamon-brown hue, and as Africancentric Cultural Nationalist, knows of the veiled racism or the arrogance of many Cubans have towards their darker co-denizens. And although, Fidel or Raul and company, have have testified that, 'racism in Communist Cuba, does not exist." The venom of racism, either, has subsided or has never gone away, totally.

Dr. Moore, has written about his youth and post-pubescent years living in Cuba and took an issue that had to be dealt since ther Batista administartion and prior. He also writes of his epiphany of his Africanness, while in NY which shed his intelligence to view pride of his "blackness" as well as of/and about the
presences of African heros & sheroes (not Spaniards, Afro Latino/Latin. Or, Afro/Black Hispanic), in the Caribbean.

This book, should be translated into the various European languages of Spanish, French, etc.,. But mainly, many African descedant Cubans, should read this book, and take solidarity with their African descedants through the Diaspora of the race issue still existing within this Western hemisphere.

Thank you, Ali Abdul Perez

Eye Opening Account of Racism in Cuba
I am African American and had an idealized view of Cuba.This was eye-opening.I would not have imagined that this much racism went on in Cuba.The writter's account of his own self hatred was unusually truthful and detailed.It read like a novel and was very enlightening.

Eye opening
This book gives an insight into Castro's Cuba from an honest perspective I never thought I'd see.Castro had such an opportunity to be fair with all of his countrymen, but because of his entrenched racism and short-sightedness, he was unable or unwilling to see the pain and hurt and devastation that he caused.The very fact that Carlos Moore was able to survive the constant murderous assaults when he spoke truth to power is a fascinating and intriguing tale.

Another Point of View
This is a very well written and informative book, which gives another side of Castros's Cuba and the whole racial identity. ... Read more

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A TALL GIRL who is afraid of heights? When Renée Marie's class takes a trip to the Eiffel Tower, she would much rather stay with her feet on the ground than go up to the top! ... Read more

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Maya's World - Renee Marie of France
Four-year-old Cassie loves the Maya's World books, especially Renee Marie of France.The books are a delight for all ages. ... Read more

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Poet, writer, activist, entertainer, professor: Maya Angelou is all of these. Her remarkable story includes a childhood trauma, a leading role in an opera, her activism in the civil rights movement, and her devotion to poetry, writing, and teaching to promote the cause of all African-Americans. Based in part on Maya's autobiography, this is the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman.Pettit makes [Angelou's] stirring story accessiblewhile retaining a strong sense of Angelou's personal voice. --Booklist ... Read more

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Caroline's review on Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart
Recently I have read Journey of the Heart by Jane Pettit. I have found it to be a wondorously enchanting novel about the life and hardships of the great poet Maya Angelou. It was extraordinary,reading the book was almost like watching a movie. The author was so descriptive that I could seelittle photographs in my head of what was happening at the time. Inconclusion I would have to say that this is one of the greatest books thatI have ever read. ... Read more

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With contributions as diverse as Black Elk’s Native American spirituality, Frederick Douglass’s religious condemnation of slaveholding, and Mary McCarthy’s agnostic uncertainty, Memoirs of the Spirit captures America’s soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.

Each of the twenty-six autobiographical reflections is prefaced by a brief biographical introduction by editor Edwin Gaustad and full-page portrait of its author, if available. Together, these chapters illustrate the wide range of faiths coloring American history: conservative and liberal Protestantism, conservative and liberal Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others. Memoirs of the Spirit offers an enlightening view of America’s rich religious past—and suggests the multiplicity that is America’s religious future.

Spiritual autobiographies by:Mary RowlandsonJonathan EdwardsBenjamin RushRichard AllenPeter CartwrightOrestes BrownsonFrederick DouglassIsaac Mayer WiseBlack Elk

Harry Emerson FosdickJohn LaFargeMary AntinReinhold NiebuhrParamahansa YoganandaBenjamin E. MaysDorothy DayMary McCarthyVirginia SorensonThomas MertonAlan WattsBilly GrahamJimmy CarterWilliam F. Buckley Jr.Maya AngelouBarbara G. HarrisonRichard Rodriguez ... Read more

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Wisdom From a Wise Lady
Maya Angelou lived in a desperate time, and in a desperately difficult family situation. There was a person in her early life who lifted her up so she could see her own worth. From there, this Lady has grown wise about human life, and how to live it wisely, fully, and more happily.

I love her chapters in this book on New Directions and the one on The Sweetness of Charity.Her viewpoints in the chapter called "What's So Funny" needs to be read often. She notes that when we as audiences indulge entertainers in their use of profanity or vulgarity by laughing and applauding it, "we are like the Romans at a colosseum battle between unarmed Christians and raging lions."God bless her for stating that "obesity is not funny, vulgarity is not amusing, insolent children and submissive parents are not the characters we want to admire or emulate."

Ms. Angelou's first book, her autobiography,"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" was my first introduction to her writing. Much courage was needed to write that book, of a painful childhood. It is beautifully written, but was so hard for me to read. This author has the words and the heart to reach the heart of anyone who has a heart.

This book is dedicated to Oprah Winfrey.It is a treat to read.

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Lessons from West-African women in beauty and dignity
Margaret Courtney-Clarke takes you into the compounds and into the dwellings of African village women. The colors and forms are exquisite. The book is beautifully produced with images that bleed to the edge of the page. The subjects are depicted in naturalistic settings and Courtney-Clarke has the technical skill to capture close-ups and groups of women equally well. The book serves as a textbook of healthy human structure and movement and is all the more valuable because the way of life it depicts and the body language that goes with that way of life are becoming increasingly rare. Very highly recommended.

This book is a must for African art and ethnology buffs.
The most striking feature of AFRICAN CANVAS is the close up detail andlarge pictures of exterior and interior West African mud house design. Some pottery design is also featured.Colors are mostly earth tonedbecause natural pigments are used.A close-up and personal look at thisbeautiful art form, and a good resource for folks interested in ethnologyand in African design. ... Read more