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Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the m...more

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I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, hones...more

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I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of D...more

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It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shame...more

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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min di...more