I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

When the spell wore off he asked Uncle Willie what colored people had done to white people in the first place. Uncle Willie, who never was one for explaining things because he took after Momma, said little except that “colored people hadn't even bothered a hair on whitefolks' heads.”