Isabel Wilkerson’s mother Rubye was a Black schoolteacher who migrated from rural Rome, Georgia to Washington, D.C. in the 1950s. Wilkerson traces her initial curiosity about the Great Migration to seeing a photo of her mother and learning her story, and she occasionally supplements Ida Mae, George, and Robert’s stories with brief vignettes from her mother’s memories.
Wilkerson's Mother Quotes in The Warmth of Other Suns
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Part Four: The Prodigals
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They had gone off to a new world but were still tied to the other. Over time, the language of geographic origin began to change; the ancestral home no longer the distant Africa of unknown forebears but the more immediate South of uncles and grandparents, where the culture they carried inside them was pure and familiar.
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Wilkerson's Mother Quotes in The Warmth of Other Suns
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Part Four: The Prodigals
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They had gone off to a new world but were still tied to the other. Over time, the language of geographic origin began to change; the ancestral home no longer the distant Africa of unknown forebears but the more immediate South of uncles and grandparents, where the culture they carried inside them was pure and familiar.
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