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“It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness”.

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“Uncle Willie, why do they hate us so much?"

Uncle Willie muttered, "They don't really hate us. They don't know us. How can they hate us? They mostly scared."

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“When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin. His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. And yet he loved me.”

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“They were more alike than she and I, or even he and I. They both had physical beauty and personality, so I figured it figured. “

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“Ritie , don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind."

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“Now, this ain't gonna hurt you much. You liked it before, didn't you?"(thesis)

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(Thesis)“Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. “

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“Mother, something is growing on my vagina." […]

"On both sides. Inside." I couldn't add that they were fleshy skin flaps that had been growing for months down there. She'd have to pull that out of me.”

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“All I knew was that I had been moved by looking at a woman's breasts.”

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“He held me so softly that I wished he wouldn't ever let me go. I felt at home”(thesis)

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“I wanted to throw a handful of black pepper in their faces, to throw lye on them, to scream that they were dirty, scummy peckerwoods”.

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“When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin”. (Relates to thesis)

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“I knew immediately why she had sent me away. She was too beautiful to have children. I had never seen a woman as pretty as she who was called "Mother”.

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“Then the possibility of being compared with him occurred to me, and I didn't want anyone to see him”. (Thesis)