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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created f...more

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The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why...more

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The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.Our women are respected here, said the father. We would never let them tr...more

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She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cr...more

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Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them...more