Royster, Jacqueline Jones. “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own”

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” (611).
“It seems to me that the agreement for inquiry and discovery needs to be deliberately reciprocal” (615).
“We need to get over our tendencies to be too possessive and to resist locking ourselves into the tunnels of our own visions and direct experience” (615).
Whether that be respecting students as individuals, what methods we use to teach, tolerance of others, in anything to do with the idea of teaching this would be good.
Talking about those who write about African American lit?
“However, like W.E.B. Du Bois, I’ve chosen not to be distracted or consumed by my rage at voyeurs, tourists, and trespassers, but to look at what I can do” (616).
“How do we negotiate the privilege of interpretation?” (618).
I find this annoying, anger making. Why should there be any privilege to interpretation? I have read, and attempted to interpret Shakespeare, but I’m not a man and never (or do not remember having) lived in his time. To me this is selfish and ridiculous. What am I missing?
Maybe I just lost the point of this article?