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pg. 8 Chap. 1:
\\\"The sounds of the new morning had been
replaced with grumbles about cheating houses,
weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty
rows. In later years I was to confront the
stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton
pickers with such an inordinate rage that I was
told even by fellow blacks that my paranoia was
embarrassing. But I had seen the fingers cut by
the mean little cotton boils, and I had witnessed
the backs and shoulders and arm and legs
resisting any further demands.\\\"

The importance of this quote is really integral to
the rest of the book. To be able to criticize
something you should have experienced it. This
passage shows that Maya has experienced the
non-privilege of being a Negro during the thirties,
and experienced it at a young age. Maya wrote
that she later confronted the stereotype, She had a
right to because of her previous......

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