| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Tyson has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. She has been the church girl who once rarely spoke a word; the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. A daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend, she is also an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. Here, in her ninth decade, Tyson is a woman who has something meaningful to say. -- adapted from jacket |
| Subject |
Tyson, Cicely.
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Actors -- United States -- Biography.
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African American actors -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General.
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Tyson, Cicely. (OCoLC)fst00074663
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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African American actors. (OCoLC)fst00798998
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Burford, Michelle, author.
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Davis, Viola, 1965- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780062931061 (hardcover) |
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0062931067 (hardcover) |
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9780063072565 |
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0063072564 |
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