It was completed 16 years after the publication of her previous autobiography, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and over thirty years after the publication of her first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Ini dilengkapi selama 16 tahun setelah publikasi autobiografi sebelumnya, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) dan lebih dari tiga tahun setelah penerbitan I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.