In every relationship you make, you’ll have to show readiness to adjust and make adaptations. When you walk out of my door, don’t let anybody raise you - you’ve been raised. You’re going to leave your mother’s big comfortable house and she won’t stop you, because she knows you too well. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night or how to raise your baby. The theme of home and belonging is central to Angelou’s work - to her spirit - and is also at the heart of her beautiful contribution to Ellyn Spragins’s 2006 anthology What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self ( public library), which also gave us Naomi Wolf’s spectacular no-bullshit letter to her younger self. “You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all,” the late and great Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) told Bill Moyers in their extraordinary 1973 conversation.
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