In the short story America and I the author Anzia Yezierska can be quoted as saying "If murders had robbed me and killed me it wouldn't have hurt me so much." The author of this story was obviously hurt and left very afraid by the harshness that the ways the new country she had come to live in. ... Anzia's courage is what many immigrants who came to this country had to display, and by doing this it helped set standards for what was possible for a person to do if they simply remain strong and brave through hard times. Anzia can also be quoted as saying "America is no utopia. ... ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Since so much of black culture is intertwined in hip-hop, both old and new representations alike, it is an important source of pride, esteem and escape for the black community. ... Hip-hop has always been committed to the others as Toni Morrison declares, " what unifies hip-hop...

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