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“She thinks my name is Freddie, you know, but of course it ain't. I
always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto
your right name they might use it sometime. Understand?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto
your right name they might use it sometime. Understand?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
“He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued.”
― Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
― Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
“…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war.”
― The Killer Angels
― The Killer Angels
“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― The Polymorph
― The Polymorph
“But as a kid, I preferred the black side, and often wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends. Instead I was stuck at that white school, P.S. 138, with white classmates who were convinced I could dance like James Brown. They constantly badgered me to do the “James Brown” for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the “Godfather of Soul” himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life. I tried to explain to them that I couldn’t dance. I have always been one of the worst dancers that God has ever put upon this earth.”
― The Color of Water
― The Color of Water
Lynnette’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lynnette’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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