Communicators who utilize a powerful style are considered more competent and attractive, while communicators that utilize powerless communication are seen as victims.
His own drawings contradicted everything he felt about the things found in the chest. When all of the things he found in the chest disgusted him and proved to be worthless to him, his drawings had elicited feelings he had from his childhood. He soon realizes how important those things in the chest were especially that a part of his childhood was found there.
He is saying to not judge a person before knowing them properly. To understand the perpectives of people that face things like discrimination and not to have bad opinions on them.