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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