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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

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Another Back Before Talk Chance Kill Moment Myself Save Turn
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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Bloom Differently Drink Perhaps South Strange Transplant Warm Wind
I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Ait Blink Collision Down Fill Heading Heedless Red Rush Scream Steep
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Drawing Evidence Inference Interfere

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