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THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.

Date Submitted: 11/24/2004 22:48:56
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 5 pages (1376 words)
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Maya Angelou, the famous author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, has written through this book her autobiography and a look at the segregation in the early years of 1930's. On page 187 of that book she has written that: " It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of blackness." Earlier in her childhood she suffered and learned from the …

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…am. That's not fair to be responsible for my identity. I don't think that Maya asked to be black neither her brother Bailey. It's really painful to have a toothache and have to bear the horrible Doctor Lincoln's policy. However, I believe that life in San Francisco changed a little bit Maya's vision about segregation and the segregationists. The truth is that you don't have to lump people, Different area, different people and different customs.

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