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Quotation by Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou (43)Additional Sources
"A Conversation with Maya Angelou" Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)as quoted in I Dream a World by Brian Lanker (1989)as quoted in Reel Women by Ally Acker (1991)Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate (1983)Caged Bird Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983)Related Subjects
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 4 (1969).
Said of one's hometown.
Said of one's hometown.
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