Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
I was overwhelmed from page one. She's an amazing woman and a deeply introspective one, with insights well beyond what I would have expected from anyone, let alone a movie actress. Mind, she's a TV actress and a theater performer, as well, with a career spanning millenia. (Well...it seemed like that, anyway.)
Although the book did the usual nauseating amount of name-dropping that I always find in an actor's memoir, it had a whole lot more than that. And so many insightful observations on being black, being a woman, and most especially, being a black woman. I can't say enough good things about this.
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