A small glowing amber paper house sitting on a folded teal and mustard patchwork quilt.

Original artwork, not a still

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Everyone carries a longing for belonging, and this describes it as a place you can arrive at exactly as you are without having to explain yourself. Home here is less an address than the relief of not being questioned.

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