Johnson & Cooper

A Strong Race Opinion -- I enjoyed reading Johnson's passage or article, because it has a distinct voice for individuality. It seems to erase the stereotypes of this culture of Indians, Native Americans or Anglo-Saxons. I like the way the article seems to embrace and encourage a number of various nations and cultures giving each one positive energy and hope which all cultures deserve because each nation has definitely had it fair share of historic hurdles to climb.

A Voice from the South -- Cooper writes: “They cannot warp a character or distort a fact in order to prove a point.” I like this line in the article because it speaks volumes to those that try to alter or water down the facts or reality of the black woman in literature, or the black person’s reality in literature. “When we have been sized up and written down by others, we need not feel that the last word is said and the oracle is sealed.”

To me this says that there are no endings to any piece of literature, that there is no ending to the stories that we tell in literature no matter if the ending or resting point that we create is happy, sad or tragic. It may possibly be the end of the story or article, but there is no ending to my literature or to me.