Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has been deemed one of the most controversial, yet influential autobiographical novels of all time. ... Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" has gained a tremendous amount of criticism for its disputable topics concerning Racism and prejudice, The American Dream, and its vulgar textual context. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a story of pride and prejudice. ... Angelou herself described this dream as whether attainable or not, "to have freedom, freedom in all things. ... The American Dream is achieved by wealth. ...

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After the dream, he was courageous and willing to go fight the barbarians. The deep spiritual significance of the dream came to him when he was older and wiser. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely ridiculous, because they were not the ones who invaded. ...

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After the dream, he was courageous and willing to go fight the barbarians. The deep spiritual significance of the dream came to him when he was older and wiser. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely ridiculous, because they were not the ones who invaded. ...

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Julian dreams of teaching his mother a lesson by "making friends with a distinguished Negro lawyer or professor" and then, bringing them home, procuring a Negro doctor in the case that his mother was ill, and the "ultimate horror" of dating a black woman. ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in had been a torment to him-" He gloomily proclaims, "Some day I"ll start making money", even though he knew he never would, so that he might buy his mother silly hats whenever she liked and they could ...

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Beginning in the second line, Blake inserts the religious reference to the soul by saying, "I am black, but O! ... As the little boy dreams that he will one day he may, "shade him from the heat till he can bear, to lean in joy upon our father's knee," the little black boy has an inclination toward subordination despite his acting out of love. Even in heaven, the little boy has will have an inherited distinction that forms a barrier between him and the white boy. ... In the last stanza, the boys dream of him brushing the white boys hair and shading him from heat gives us i...

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I must state first of all that in answering this question I may betray a conflict of interest. ... Having said all of that, I will attempt to answer the question as honestly as possible. ... White people have far too much of a stake in maintaining their supremacy. ... So I am forced to conclude that white people should, and have to be killed to accomplish liberation. ... But Cone also makes clear that King's nonviolent philosophy was no mere nave dream, but a tactic which he deemed most effective. ...

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Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... While Jacobs didn't consider herself to be a slave - "I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise"(Jacobs 3), Frederick Douglass had to re-learn to think of himself as a human being and a free man, rather than a property of someone or a slave. ... Jacobs's action goes against the appropriate moral codes of "The Cult of True Womanhood," but she writes - "I knew what I did, and...

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