I enjoyed learning more about this amazing woman. What surprised me was how many famous people she met during her life - Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Billie Holiday, and others.

I was not expecting an autobiography to be so engaging but that it was! I can't wait to read the other five books.

Mixed emotions

She is a very strong willed woman, which I respect, however, her hatred toward white people was every bit as distasteful as the ill treatment she claimed blacks received. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

The Heart of a Woman is an Autobiography about and written by poet Maya Angelou. It is an account of her life when she was a young adult living in California all the way until she sends her son Guy to university in Ghana. She was living in a very hard time for black people she talks a lot about how she became an activist and for al she fought for. She writes about her struggles to make a place for herself in the art community, her relationship with Vusumzi Make who was unfaithful to her. She writes about finding her love for poetry as an art and many more hardships that she had to face. I read this book because I love Angelou's poetry and I wanted to know more about her and the life behind the beautiful words she wrote. I would rate this book a 4/5 stars. I would recommend it to anyone who may want to read an enthralling and touching story about a woman making her place in the world.

This was a work book club read and though I haven’t read any other memoir of Angelou’s, I enjoyed this little jaunt through her life.

Very inspiring, moving and interesting with the perfect sprinkle of humour. I loved her writing style. How light and crisp it is. Every chapter kept me even more interested for what's coming.
This is my first read by Maya Angelou and I admire her even more now than I did before. As an activist, as a mother, a lover and a friend.
In this book she shows a personal side of herself and talks honestly about her struggle, the racism, the sexism and the misogyny she endured throughout her life.
An aspect of the book that I found very emotional and informative was her relationship with her son Guy. How much she takes him seriously and gives him space to think for himself and learn from his mistakes. I saw a great mother in her and I learned a lot.

I read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for the first time in college and was blown away. I had long admired Ms. Angelou, but knew almost nothing about her. I decided a few years ago to read the next book in her autobiography and was amazed at the life she led of which I was completely unaware. I've been continuously in awe of her accomplishments with each installment that I read. Angelou's prose is easy to read and very straightforward. She is neither self-deprecating nor boastful, she just tells it like it is. I find that refreshing.

The bonus of these books, beyond just learning about Ms. Angelou's life experiences, is how close she was to the Civil Rights Movements in the US and even overseas. Absolutely fascinating. I definitely recommend this book for older audiences of all walks of life.

Un bouquin sublime qui nous éduque autant qu'il nous charme. Les faits historiques sont là, et les sentiments décrits sont carrément une valeur ajoutée qui nous sommes envie de sauter dans les rues militer encore et toujours.

The Heart of a Woman is Maya Angelou's forth autobiography. This book reveals more of Maya's hectic adventures, political opinions, struggle with racism, and misfortune in the romance department. You will be introduced to Maya, the activist, who works for Martin Luther King Jr. and gets to meet Malcolm X. I like that each chapter is exciting enough to keep me interested.

I'm not surprised that she was able to keep her writing fresh and crispy with just the right amount of tasteful humor. Her son, Guy, is all grownup now and their mother/son relationship is heartwarming. She generously shares intimate details, so openly and honestly as per usual, which could be valuable life lessons on autonomy, relationships, and decision making for all women out there.

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n   Maya Angelou's Autobiographies:n
1) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
2) Gather Together in My Name.
3) Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas.
4) The Heart of a Woman.
5) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.
6) A Song Flung Up to Heaven.

We are endlessly lucky to have Maya Angelou -- a singular voice in literature, writing with such clarity so as to depict such a compelling portrait of this turbulent, inspiring, and revolutionary time period in the world. I loved this, and cannot wait to read the rest of her memoir series.

As with the previous volumes of Maya Angelou's autobiography, she pulls you into her adventurous, vibrant, and tumultuous life. The Heart of a Woman was certainly no different. Amidst her involvement in the Harlem literary scene with the likes of James Baldwin, to her journey into civil rights activism working for Martin Luther King, through to her love affair with a South African civil rights activist, there is a real sense of Maya Angelou making her place in the world - as an activist, as a writer, as a mother, and as a woman. As ever her writing is truthful and beautiful, and the way in which she blends literature and autobiography is just amazing.

I waited entirely too long to read this book! It sat on my "to read" shelf for too long and I'm sad to say it was her passing that made me pick it up and start to read, wanting to feel close to her through her words. Now I regret having waited.. This book is so rich in the History she shares of her accounts of The Harlem Renaissance era, working with Dr. King and the Literary Writer's Guild she was part of. Not to mention the pearls of wisdom and cherished insights she shares as a woman and mother who has experienced and endured much. I am thankful for this treasure she's left behind and know it will be a book now added to my "Read Again" shelf.