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““Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin' old tore-up clothes.””

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“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

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You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I…

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“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.”

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“When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that…

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“I don’t know how I feel about a canon anymore ... The sheer volume of books that exist out there means that a canon…

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“[...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the…

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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all,…

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“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”

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“You waver, because you don’t really want to know … but you haven’t been a coward for some years now. So you steel yourself…

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“What can orogeny do against something like that? Keep her breathing, maybe. But breathing doesn't always mean living, and maybe... maybe genocide doesn't always…

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“What the rust do you matter? Who cares about you? Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Once, you did have people who cared about you. Once there were children who looked up to you and lived on your every word. Once—twice, three times, but the first two don’t count—there was a man you woke up next to every morning, who…

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“Let me say only that these vehicles float a few inches off the ground. No animals draw them. No steam or chemical fuels them.…

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“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had…

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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

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Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as…

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“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

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