Looking By Maya Angelou Summary

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Angelou had used anecdotes to describe the situations when Maya had been discriminated by her colour and appearance by the White Americans. Maya and Momma had to go to the dentist because Maya had two rotten teeth. However there were no Negro dentist in her area, and the nearest Negro dentist was in Texarkana which was far. So Momma had decided to go to Dr. Lincoln's since he owned her a favour from the past. Momma talked to Dr. Lincoln about Maya’s tooth problem and he replied “‘Annie, you know that I don’t treat nigra, colored people.’ [...] ‘Now my policy is I don’t treat colored people.’” (186). Dr. Lincoln did not help Maya with her toothache, despite the fact that Momma had helped him a lot in the past. He did not help them because they