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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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