While reading the book, "...the reader must deal throughout with the dual perspective of the child, growing to consciousness of herself and the limits of her world..."" ... (Bloom1 209) "'No No No No' is a poem about the rejection of the American myths that promise justice for all but only guarantee freedom for a few- (Bloom1 209) She also says that the equality of life needs to improve in several of her poems including "Times-Square-Composition- and "Harlem Hopscotch."" "Times Square- tells the story of a shoeshine man who cleans shoes at such a remarkable rhythm that it in fa...

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It seems that only someone with a sense of morality that has been dulled as a constant perpetrator and witness of atrocities could place the blame squarely in the lap of a victim, compounding the tragedy. ... We are as free from the power of slave holders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition." (228)...

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In 1914 Marcus Mosiah Garvey started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica. UNIA was started to help promote blacks in everyone's eyes so that they wouldn't have to be "at the mercy of white people."" (Kanet.org 7) Garvey wanted blacks to set up their own nation. In 1916, he ...

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