What is the meaning of this sentence in "Everyday Use"? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head...

At this
point in the story, the narrator, Mama, is speaking about her interactions with white men. As an
African American woman raised during times of racial turmoil and violence, Mama would doubtless
have experienced racist abuse and would likely have been conditioned by experience to be wary of
white men.

Therefore,...