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Just as I am, a memoir, Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis

eng

autobiography

illustrationsplates

index present

non fiction

Just as I am

1230502793

Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis

Multiple titles for book club discussion groups

a memoir

"Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the acress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and a mother, a sister and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by his hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say"--From dust jacket

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