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the made-up colors, black and white, brown, red, and yellow, along with a multitude of sects and faiths, language groups and economic systems. Men
His ancestors were the first humans in the world to be considered property under the rubric of pure capitalism.
this world wants to own their labor, hollow out their souls, and sell their produce in bulk to a world that does not know their names before, during, or after the material transaction that defines their brief, unsatisfying existence.
long as they know he is blessed with the willingness to fight back, then the rules begin to tip, ever so slightly, in his favor.
He put up his hand as if he wanted me to bend down so he could whisper something but I didn’t think that anything he had to offer could improve my life.
and at that same moment I resolved to leave Texas forever.
What was a woman compared to the love of two friends?
if Albright could do something like that to one of his own then I knew he could do the same, and much worse, to me.
long enough for the average person to formulate a lie.
The bedroom was also simple. Wood floor, window for a wall, and a king-sized bed with a dead man on it.
But I didn’t believe that there was justice for Negroes. I thought that there might be some justice for a black man if he had the money to grease it. Money isn’t a sure bet but it’s the closest to God that I’ve ever seen in this world.
a man’s work clothes are the only real clothes he has.
That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years.
just another couple of unlucky stiffs left holding the short end of the stick.
She look like she white and you think like you white. But brother you don’t know that you both poor niggers. And a nigger ain’t never gonna be happy ’less he accept what he is.”
