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"'No, I haven't decided on colors yet. That's not what I mean, I mean no, I won't help you.'" (Anderson)

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"I couldn't tell anybody" (Anderson).

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"My mother can't believe it: a living breathing friend on the porch for her maladjusted daughter" (Anderson)!

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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..."
(Angelou, 100-101)

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"I am the only person sitting alone" (Anderson 1)

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"I could say the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou 172).

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"So why does everyone make such a big hairy deal about me not talking? .... Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say" (Anderson).

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Joe Mirza
"I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone, to sit next to" (Anderson).

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ALEX EUSEBIO

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"It feels so good to have someone feel sorry for me" (Anderson 2).

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A pyramid of flesh with the with the whitefolks on the bottom, a broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes and cotton sacks and spirituals  sticking out of their mouths." (Angelou 181).

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"I'm not going to let an idiot teacher jerk me around like this" (Anderson).

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"She launches into a sob story about how much she hates being a Marthadrone Indentured servitude would be better. they were just taking advantage of her, bossing her around" (Anderson).

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"I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache" (Anderson 1).

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"...NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE SPEECHES. I CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT" (Anderson).

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"On the other hand,

we're rushing toward summer, which means shorts and

T-shirts and maybe even a bathing suit now and then. I walk

past the deep-fat fryers" (Anderson).

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"I bite my lip. Does she want to know the truth, that she's self-centered and cold? That I hope all the seniors yell at her? That I hate sea-foam green, and besides, it's none of her business if my windows are dirty? I feel tiny button noses against my back. Bunnies say to be kind. Lie," (Anderson).