Yet, her few years of almost complete silence-she continued to speak to her brother Bailey-actually served her well Miss Angelou-a former dancer, director and television scriptwriter who is now at work on her second novel-clearly heard, saw, smelled, tasted and seized hold of all the sounds and sights around her. "Just my breath, carrying my words out, might poison people… I had to stop talking."
She appeared in court, failed to tell the whole truth and, after her assailant was found dead, concluded that her words could kill. She and her brother were shuttled back and forth between their mother in the North and grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Ark.
"What are you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay…" With these words-from a poem that she stumbled over during a church recital-Maya Angelou opens her autobiography and conveys the diminished sense of herself that pervaded much of her childhood.
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