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Date(s) - 02/18/2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location
San Francisco Public Library - Main Branch
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Linda A. Jackson, San Francisco writer and historian, leads a deep reading of Just as I Am: A Memoir by iconic cultural figure, Cicely Tyson.
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 actress 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.
–Cicely Tyson
- Part 1: JAN 28, 1 PM
- Part 2: FEB 18, 1 PM
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