During the turn of the century, Booker T. ... Washington understood that his speech, although meant to present the races "as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (451), also gave him a bit of backlash from his own community, while bringing prosper from the white community. ... Especially when he claims that the black man is not even yet free – "The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins" (535) – for so many of the black community are still being persecuted simply for the color of their skin, the coarsenes...

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Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. ... (Morrison 19) That was an excerpt from the book The Bluest Eye and in that scene we see how Pecola adores the cup with the pretty little while girl on it. ... The novel says that it is due primarily to her injured foot that she felt a sense of separateness and unworthiness and also why she "never felt at home anywhere, or that she belonged anyplace- (Morrison, 111) This feeling was intensified by her experiences of exclusion and loneliness after moving up north. ...

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