- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Contents
- A mighty seed / Viola Davis -- This life -- The vow -- String bean -- Church girl -- Transitions -- The other America -- Unspoken -- Ground shifts -- Divinely guided -- Shoulder taps -- Center stage -- Riverside Park -- Going natural -- 1968 -- Rebecca -- Jane Pittman -- Endings and beginnings -- The ladder -- Roots -- Thanksgiving Day -- Threadbare -- Lesson before dying -- A strong harvest -- Trip to bountiful -- When great trees fall -- Just as I am.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-609
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2020951686
- Author
Tyson, Cicely, author.
- Title
Just as I am : a memoir / Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis.
- Publisher
New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
©2021
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Tyson: Occupation/field of activity group: occ Actors
Tyson: Ethnic/cultural group: eth African Americans
Tyson: Gender group: gdr Women
- Summary
"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.
- Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
Black author.
- Added Author
Burford, Michelle, author.
Davis, Viola, 1965- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
Sc E 21-609