“Shame” by Dick Gregory

“Shame,” an excerpt from the nonfiction story by Dick Gregory, absorb readers into the story and tells them the story of Gregory’s past. Dick Gregory faced a difficult childhood as a kid and grew up burdened by hardship of all kinds. Gregory’s teacher set him apart from other kids just because he’s poor and labeled him based on social hierarchy. In the dictionary, the meaning shame means a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.