She dedicated it to her blood brother, Bailey Johnson Junior
, and to ten other real brothers who encouraged me to be bodacious enough to invent my own life daily.
Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. Random House, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Maya Angelou
MA
adored her brother, also named Bailey Johnson
. As children they were close, operating almost as a single unit. As a teenager, confronting the near-genocidal hatred and fear directed at black males by whites...
Textual Production
Maya Angelou
The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King
and the success of MA
's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House
suggested...