![]() ![]() Her grandmother, Annie Henderson, raised Angelou in Arkansas until she turned 13, when she moved into her mother’s home in San Francisco. ![]() This inner sense of home stems from the innate child in all of us yearning for security and safety from the unpredictable outside world.Īngelou spends the bulk of the work unraveling her maternal relationships-especially her unconventional relationship with her mother. Everyone “carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin” (6). Despite constant movement, Angelou believes that one never truly leaves home. She moved around often, having lived in San Francisco, New York City, Paris, Cairo, and West Africa. Louis, Missouri but raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Angelou writes that she has “thousands of daughters” regardless of race, religion, sexuality, etc. ![]() She tells the reader, “You will find in this book accounts of growing up, unexpected emergencies, a few poems, some light stories to make you laugh and some to make you meditate” (5). In the Prologue, Angelou dedicates her letter to the daughter she never birthed but whom she sees in everyone. ![]()
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