Prejudice begins with justifying something as different based on personal experience and how one was raised. During Moody's childhood in Coming of Age in Mississippi, she highlights how people learned to hate each other by judging the difference in skin color. Arriving at the movie theater, Moody and his siblings followed their white friends into a no-blacks zone. They were not allowed to return to the movies after being caught by their mother and her white friends stopped playing outside Moody's house. The author states, “All of a sudden they were white, and their whiteness made them better for me. I now realized that not only were they better than me because they were white, but that everything they had and everything about them was better than what was available to me” (34). Until that moment, Moody's siblings and white friends did not know that they were different based on their skin color. His autobiography demonstrates that we are not born to hate someone, it is erudite knowledge.