• Jaculin Diana. A

“Racism is still with us, but it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet and hopefully we shall overcome” -Rosa Park In front of god all humans are equal but the world treats the people according to their color instead of showing humanity. Here the poem I know why the caged bird sings written by Maya Angelou project about the suffering of Black people, they long for the freedom. In this poem caged bird is compared to Black people and free bird is compare to White people. The black people are treated as serfs, they want to fly high like a free bird but they are suffered by the White, because they are Black. Till now the color difference exists among us. Even though they are Black they are humans and they achieved in many fields. So we should not judge the person by their appearance because everyone has their own freedom to do according to their wish. The aim of this paper to project about the black who is longing for freedom and racial distinction between white and black

Freedom, Inequality, Racial discrimination, Slaves, inferiority complex.

"The longing of freedom and racial distinction in Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.74-77, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06019.pdf

"The longing of freedom and racial distinction in Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp74-77, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06019.pdf