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• Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
• But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to…
• I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I…
• Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were…
• "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel…
• "You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
• We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He…
• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit…
• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things…
• The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…
• We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

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