Add a quote from pages 61-75 by Pola Stein

2025-10-16 18:41:22 UTC

They say the kids are dumb and so they’re teaching them to work with their hands. Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure that they don’t get smart : they are really teaching them to be slaves(Baldwin, 36).

2025-10-16 18:42:15 UTC

“in the face the fact that Fonny’s family didn’t give a shit about him and were not going to do a thing to help him. We were his family now, the only family he had: and now everything was up to us.” - 74

2025-10-16 18:43:29 UTC

"...went out of their way to be very sweet with raggedyassed me, just like the missionaries had told them. All they really saw was that big black hand of my father's which held them at the waist – of course, my Daddy was really holding me at the waist, but it was somehow like it was them. They did not know whether they disapproved of its color, its position, or its shape: but they certainly disapproved of its power of touch." pg. 62

2025-10-16 18:44:16 UTC

"But I keep trying to tell you, I keep trying to tell you," cried Mrs. Hunt, "that it's that negative attitude which is so dangerous! You're so full of hate! If you give people hatred, they will give it back to you!"

2025-10-16 18:44:20 UTC

"I guess you call your lustful action love" (68)

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" his sight forced itself to stretch itself, beyond horizons he had never dreamed of" pg.68

2025-10-16 18:46:28 UTC

"Frank's not talking hatred, Mrs. Hunt," Sharon said. "He's just telling the truth about life in this country, and it's only natural for him to be upset" pg. 65

2025-10-16 18:47:05 UTC

"I guess you call your lustful action love... I always knew you were going to be the destruction of my son. You have a demon in you, I always knew it.( pg 68)

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"The price one pays for pursuing any calling or executing any vision is loneliness”

2025-10-16 18:48:08 UTC

Though the sisters were Fonny's sisters, I had never thought of them as his sisters. Well. That's not true. If they had not been Fonny's sisters, I would never have noticed them at all. Because they were his sisters, and I knew that they didn't really like Fonny, I hated them. They didn't hate me. They didn't hate anybody, and that was what was wrong with them. (Baldwin , 62.)