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

"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 sou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Tyson, Cicely (Author) Burford, Michelle (Author)
Other Authors:	Davis, Viola, 1965- (writer of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Tyson, Cicely. Actors > United States > Biography. African American actors > Biography. African American women > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General. Actors. African American actors. African American women. United States. Autobiographies. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Autobiographies. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xvi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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.