All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes as the fifth book in Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography sequence narrates the story of 33 year-old Angelou while discussing some important themes like the theme of resistance. Writers like Angelou have reconstructed the oppression of black women and have questioned it openly; at the same time they have called for social rebellious activities to resist. Angelou's autobiographical novels have validated the issues such as black women's ability to tolerate racial discrimination and self-assertion. The struggle undertaken by Angelou shows her resistance against the unequal social order and gender discrimination. This paper intends to analyze All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes to show how its writer has used the theme of resistance as a voice to call for revolution and freedom. To do so, Homi K. Bhabha's theory of postcolonialism will be applied by laying especial focus on such concepts as displacement, hybridity, ambivalence, and marginalization.

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