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      “The South is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.”
    
― The World's Largest Man
  ― The World's Largest Man
      “It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said.
"Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family."
"But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”
― The Green-Eyed Hurricane
  "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family."
"But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”
― The Green-Eyed Hurricane
 
      “I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.”
    
― March: Book One
  ― March: Book One
      “I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.”
    
― From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
  ― From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
 
      “But the book! The siren song of the book!”
    
― Witnessing
  ― Witnessing
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