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In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Maya experiences racism all around her throughout the story which shows how no one stays safe implying that whether black or white, racism lives

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Words hurt. They can destroy one’s self esteem, mindset, or even life

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Diversity can be one of the main reasons racism exists. Many people just don’t accept diversity so instead they try to destroy it with their words

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Racism can lead to many extreme consequences, including death. There have been many deaths and grieving because of racism over time

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There are all types of racism between different races. Any race can discriminate any other race

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Disappointment and sadness may arise from racism in this time period

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Diversity

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Dark sad times

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Name calling

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Black deaths

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Racism towards the Asian population

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“Uncle Ira said to my mother, “Here, Bibbi. Here's this nigger Patterson. Come over here and beat his ass.” (Angelou 144).

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“Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.” It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks” (Angelou 228).

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“Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world” (Angelou 212).

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“Bailey said he saw a man, a colored man, whom nobody had delivered. He was dead” (Angelou 300).

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“The morning's brightness drew me awake and I was surrounded with strangeness. I had slid down the seat and slept the night through in an ungainly position. Wrestling with my body to assume an upward arrangement, I saw a collage of Negro, Mexican and white faces outside the windows” (Angelou 298).

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“The Asian population dwindled before my eyes. I was unable to tell the Japanese from the Chinese and as yet found no real difference in the national origin of such sounds as Ching and Chan or Moto and Kano.” (Angelou 429).

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“My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful” (Angelou 210).

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“Pride and Prejudice stalked in tandem the beautiful hills. Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials. They were also forced to live with skin-deep guilt brought on by the treatment of their former Nisei schoolmates.”

(Angelou 435).

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“I heard him say to Momma, “Annie, tell Willie he better lay low tonight. A crazy nigger messed with a white lady today. Some of the boys'll be coming over here later.” Even after the slow drag of years, I remember the sense of fear which filled my mouth with hot, dry air, and made my body light” (Angelou 41).

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“The nearest Negro dentist was in Texarkana, twenty-five miles away, and I was certain that I'd be dead long before we reached half the distance. Momma said we'd go to Dr. Lincoln, right in Stamps, and he'd take care of me. She said he owed her a favor” (Angelou 381).

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Whether black or white, racism lives