[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-330519-105":59,"doc-detail-330519-en":131},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":124,"head_meta":126,"extra_data":128,"updated_unix":130},105,"en","i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-330519","I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings","","A published text by Maya Angelou, featuring the complete contents of the original hardcover edition. The work includes a dedication, acknowledgments, printing history across multiple editions, and copyright and reproduction notice. It connects the book to earlier literature and music through credits for sourced material and references to poem titles and contributors. The provided sections also include personal narrative material that reflects memory, community, and identity themes. ",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-330519/330519/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-330519/330519.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Theodora","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-04","2026-09-21",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",24,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What does the book include according to the edition statement?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition, explicitly noting that no word has been omitted.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"Which earlier works are credited in the acknowledgments section?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"The acknowledgments credit material connected to the poem \"Sympathy\" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and \"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing\" with words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"Who does the book dedicate the work to?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"The book is dedicated to the author’s son, Guy Johnson, and all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds and gods and sing their songs.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},330519,1790109814,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":146},687197207919,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/a000253d6f5f7c60be?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1779446848396160552","BANTAM BOOKS BY MAYA ANGELOUASK YOUR BOOKSELLER FOR THOSETHAT YOU HAVE MISSED  \nI KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSGATHER TOGETHER INMY NAME  \nSINGIN’AND SWINGIN’AND GETTIN'MERRYLIKE CHRISTMAS  \nTHE HEART OF A WOMAN  \nMAYA ANGELOU:POEMS  \nWOULDN’T TAKE NOTHING FORMY JOURNEY NOW  \nI SHALL NOT BE MOVEDEVEN THE STARS LOOK LONESOME  \n# I KNOW WHYTHE CAGEDBIRD SINGS\n\nMaya Angelou  \nBANTA M BOOKSNew York Toronto LondonSydney Auckland  \nThis book is dedicated toMY SON,GUY JOHNSON,and all the strongblack birds of promisewho defy the odds and godsand sing their songs  \nThis edition contains the complete textof the original hardcover edition.NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.  \nI KNOw WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS  \nA Bantam Book/published by arrangement withRandom House,Inc.  \nPRINTING HISTORY  \nRandom House edition published February 1970Book-of-the-Month Club edition published March 1970Ebony Book Club edition published April 1970A portion of this book appeared in EBONY magazine April 1970Bantam mass market edition/March 1971Bantam trade edition/June 1997  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nThe ticle,I Know Why zhe Caged Bird Sings,is from the poem \"Sympathy,\"  \nby Paul Laurence Dunbar.  \n\"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,\"words by James Weldon Johnson,music by J.RosamondJohnson,Copyright Edward B.Marks Music Corporation  \nAll rights reserved  \nCopyright c1969by Maya Angelou.Cover photograph copyright 1997 by Dwight CarterNo part of this book may be reproduced or transmittedin any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by any informationstorage and retrieval system,without permission in writingfrom the publisher.For information address:Random House,Inc.,201East 50th Street,New York,N.Y.10022.  \n\n| If vou purchased this book without a cover vou should be aware that this book is  \u003Cbr>stolen property.It was reported as \"unsold and destroyed\"to the publisher and nei-  \u003Cbr>ther the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this\"stripped book.\"   |\n| --- |\n\nISBN0-553-38001-X  \nPublished simultaneously in the United States and Canada  \nBantam Books are published by Bantam Books,a division of Random House,Inc.Its trade-mark,consisting of the words \"Bantam Books\"and the portrayal of a rooster,is Registered inU.S.Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.Marca Registrada.Bantam Books,1540 Broadway,New York,New York 10036.  \n# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\n\nI thank my mother,Vivian Baxter,and my brother,BaileyJohnson,who encouraged me to remember.Thanks to theHarlem Writers'Guild for concern and to John O.Killenswho told me I could write.To Nana Kobina Nketsia IV whoinsisted that I must.Lasting gratitude to Gerard Purcell whobelieved concretely and to Tony D'Amato who understood.Thanks to Abbey Lincoln Roach for naming my book.A finalthanks to my editor at Random House,Robert Loomis,whogently prodded me back into the lost years.  \n“What you looking at me for?I didn't come to stay...”  \nI HADN’T so much forgot as I couldn’t bring myself toremember.Other things were more important.  \n“What you looking at me for?I didn't come to stay...”  \nWhether I could remember the rest of the poem or not wasimmaterial.The truth of the statement was like a wadded-uphandkerchief,sopping wet in my fists,and the sooner theyaccepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the airwould cool my palms.  \n“What you looking at me for...?”  \nThe children's section of the Colored Methodist Episcopal  \nMAYA ANGELOU  \nChurch was wiggling and giggling over my well-knownforgetfulness.  \nThe dress I wore was lavender taffeta,and each time Ibreathed it rustled,and now that I was sucking in air tobreathe out shame it sounded like crepe paper on the back ofhearses.  \nAs I'd watched Momma put ruffles on the hem and cutelittle tucks around the waist,I knew that once I put it on I'dlook like a movie star.(It was silk and that made up for theawful color.)I was going to look like one of the sweet littlewhite girls who were everybody's dream of what was rightwith the","cbCaiaOmaj2jgSFL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaOmaj2jgSFL","pdf",1795460,150,"English","# I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS\n# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS","[{\"question\":\"What does the book include according to the edition statement?\",\"answer\":\"This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition, explicitly noting that no word has been omitted.\"},{\"question\":\"Which earlier works are credited in the acknowledgments section?\",\"answer\":\"The acknowledgments credit material connected to the poem \\\"Sympathy\\\" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and \\\"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing\\\" with words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson.\"},{\"question\":\"Who does the book dedicate the work to?\",\"answer\":\"The book is dedicated to the author’s son, Guy Johnson, and all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds and gods and sing their songs.\"}]","I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | PDF",1789989261,231]