Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. It details his very early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Context: He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
“I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Source: Angela's Ashes
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes (1996)
