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• Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
• A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor…
• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for…
• Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
• There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and…
• Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made…
• I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for…
• Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that…
• I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
• If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
• I regret all of my books.
• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.…

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