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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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 could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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