ld-rearing is highly significant in empowering AngelouÆs sense of resiliency. This is because she is often at odds in viewing her motherÆs brand of child-rearing that, to the young Angelou, seems like her motherÆs attempt to protect her from racism and discrimination. Angelou (1993, p. 47) describes her motherÆs child-rearing strategy at one point in her book, ôMomma intended to teach Bailey and me to use the paths of life that she and her generation and all the Negroes gone before had found, and found to be safe ones.ö Angelou did not believe that others had the right to make her travel a path that did not offer her the right to develop her potential and fulfill her dreams. Time and agahn she is outragdd or offended by such assumptions, whether they are offered by white racists or Afri
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