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“I’ve seen too many miseries and too many tricks. They say we should pull ourselves up by the bootstraps but how the hell we gonna do that when the man keeps stealing away the boots?”34
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
momentarily mistook the hydrant for a redhead and gave his usual shake of the shoulders at how repetitious this thought was, how repetitious all his thoughts were, how they ran in a deep rut and how his entire life ran in a rut, really.
Anne Tyler • Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
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The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
Frederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
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gossip of flames,
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.4
George Orwell • All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
