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What a beautifully written book. It made me realize that possibly every book I've ever read about the African-American experience has primarily been about racism and/or slavery. And while we should probably never stop writing and reading about that, this book was just a story about people, which really drove home the point that the Black experience is stand-alone interesting, and not merely as a reflection of interactions with white people. Janie, the main character, is written so complexly and
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"When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. "
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