1. I believe he says; a smart Indian be a dangerous person because all around the world there is this  stereotype  that African American people aren’t smart. He is being considered dangerous because he’s an African American guy that is smart.

2. The author was trying to tell us that in order to have a good successful life you have to be smart. People that are usually smart get good jobs and are able to own there own business.

3. I believe if a person wants to break free of stereotypes they have to have courage as well as compassion. I say they have to have courage because there’s a lot of steps to push through to get to where you want to be in life, you have to keep building yourself to get there. I say compassion because if you don’t love the dream your chasing you going to want to give up at a point in time.

4. Yes the paragraph helps me understand what a paragraph does. I would say that in a paragraph there is Little parts to a story that you are telling. You. are just trying to break it up into little pieces for the reader.