Hopes, Dreams, and Reality Graduation by Maya Angelou is an essay about discrimination. The beginning of this essay reminded me of my own high school graduation. How scared but excited I was to be taking the next step up in my life. I felt like the story paralleled my experiences at the beginning, but at the end I had a totally different outlook on this piece of writing. As I got further into the essay, …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…type of job. Thank God, our society is changing. Unlike Angelou, I can be anything I set my heart to. There are no barriers holding me back. I agree with Angelou and support her ideas and ways of thinking. I believe black people are no different from white people, and I feel that it was unfair that black people were not given the same opportunities as white people, even though they were just as qualified.