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Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. These stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

Lyric Stokes lives, by most standards, a charmed life. Married to Michael Stokes, a prominent heart surgeon, she has financial security and lives in the lap of luxury. All is not perfect, though. Lyric feels inadequate because she gave birth to a daughter rather than the son her husband so desperately wanted. After an unexpected turn of events, Lyric discovers that she’s pregnant again, but now she has to decide whether she even wants to keep the child she has longed for.

After killing her own mother, Angela will stop at nothing until the woman who's ruined her life twice has experienced just as much pain as she has. She vows to make Jade's life a living hell and with the help of her brother, she's going to hit her where it hurts first by going after her child. Charles and Tyrone both know what Angela is capable of so they have to put their differences to the side to protect Jade and her baby.

After finding out that his only child was pregnant, Charles put her out of his home guiding her straight to the lion's den. Charles had no idea where Jade would go but he was certain of one thing and one thing only, he didn't want to have to protect another child from their mother. Filled with pain, Jade made her way to her estranged mother and stepfather, and then everything hit the fan. Her mother Angela realizes that her daughter is pregnant by her husband and will stop at nothing until Jade is no longer a fixture in her life.

When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home ever week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way—and examined his own healing while praying for hers. Grocery Shopping with My Mother originated as social media posts about these visits and evolved into a breathtaking collection of thirty-two new poems, crafted like an album, plus four bonus tracks celebrating a great love of wordplay.

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman...