| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2020951686 |
| ISBN | 9780062931061 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0062931067 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780063072565 |
| ISBN | 0063072564 |
| Stock number | Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 SAN 200-2086 |
