THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.
Title: THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1376 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1376 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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.