" The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming. It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless (and children) it closed in around us, as a real mother embraces a stranger's child. Warmly, but not too familiarly. "

― Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)