The author is metaphor the brown bag as herself and the other bags as different races. She is saying that bags are all similar and filled with the same stuff. She is saying they are all filled with the same stuff because people all have the same things on the inside. It is the outside and are skin color that makes us different. In this quote racist are being compared. The significance is that we are all the same on the inside why can't we be the same on the outside. Also, why do are skin color have to make us different on the outside. This relations to the Harlem renaissance because the african american community want to show they can do everything that a white men and women could do and that they could do it better. Also, it shows that they
