<span>Gates calls Wheatley or Phillis Wheatley as the "midwife of African American
literature." She was a slave who was the first person to publish an
African-American Female poem. She worked for the Wheatley family in Boston.
These people were an influence to her reading and writing skills, in fact, they
were the ones who encouraged her to pursue poetry writing because of her
natural talent.</span>
The person wonders if there is a point when humans know everything, or if there is a point where humans are too full of knowledge to learn anything else.
