All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is Maya Angelou’s fifth autobiographical volume, chronicling her experiences living in Ghana and exploring themes of identity, home, and the African diaspora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Context triple: [Maya Angelou, notableWork, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes]
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Child of God
Child of God is a dark, Southern Gothic novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the violent descent of an outcast man in rural Tennessee into extreme depravity and isolation.
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Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
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Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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D.
A Long Walk
A Long Walk is a soulful R&B song by Jill Scott, celebrated for its smooth groove, poetic lyrics, and warm, conversational storytelling style.
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The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules is a novel by John Irving that follows an orphan named Homer Wells and explores complex themes of morality, abortion, and personal choice in mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Target entity description: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is Maya Angelou’s fifth autobiographical volume, chronicling her experiences living in Ghana and exploring themes of identity, home, and the African diaspora.
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A.
Child of God
Child of God is a dark, Southern Gothic novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the violent descent of an outcast man in rural Tennessee into extreme depravity and isolation.
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B.
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
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C.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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D.
A Long Walk
A Long Walk is a soulful R&B song by Jill Scott, celebrated for its smooth groove, poetic lyrics, and warm, conversational storytelling style.
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E.
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules is a novel by John Irving that follows an orphan named Homer Wells and explores complex themes of morality, abortion, and personal choice in mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiographical book
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| author | Maya Angelou ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| follows | The Heart of a Woman ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
autobiography ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
belonging to multiple worlds
ⓘ
cross-cultural misunderstanding ⓘ cultural displacement ⓘ search for home ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ transatlantic history of slavery ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | African-American autobiography tradition ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Maya Angelou ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African diaspora
ⓘ
Pan-Africanism ⓘ exile and return ⓘ home and belonging ⓘ identity ⓘ motherhood ⓘ race and racism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableAspect |
depicts community of African-American expatriates in Ghana
ⓘ
examines tensions between Africans and African Americans ⓘ explores African Americans’ search for ancestral roots in Africa ⓘ |
| partOf | Maya Angelou’s seven-volume life narrative ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 5 ⓘ |
| precedes | A Song Flung Up to Heaven ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| series | Maya Angelou autobiographies ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Accra
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | derived from African American spirituals imagery ⓘ |
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Subject: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Description of subject: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is Maya Angelou’s fifth autobiographical volume, chronicling her experiences living in Ghana and exploring themes of identity, home, and the African diaspora.
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