If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn’t be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it’d still be his. If the white man wasn’t destined to take this new world, he wouldn’t own it now.
“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“The cicadas made the bones of my hand buzz.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“The conflict in Europe was terrible and violent, she told her sailor, but she took exception to the name. The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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