continues to wonder "that my people may be a race of masochists and that not only was it our fate to live the poorest, roughest life but that we liked it like that" (Angelou 190). The black community is reluctant to take direct action for a gain in respectability with the whites. The whites continue to demean and treat blacks with the worst situations, and many blacks persist to live in fear for losing what very little they have. This trend can be broken with social revolution, a goal that younger generations are trying to start. During a church sermon, the minister proclaims that "Charity don't say, 'Because I give you a job, you got to bend your knee to me' [...] 'It don't say, 'Because I pays
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