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Boarding Schools
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Calling people out their names is a bad habit the people of European descent seem to have. The one that takes the rag off the bush is how they went all the way to Africa and called nature out of its name...Victoria Falls, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Lake Victoria, Lake Rudolf, Lake Albert, etc. The W.F.'s that came here did the same thing with the indigenous people living here...called them Indians; and years later missionaries, government officials, census takers, etc., "tidied up their records
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― Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae
― Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae
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How come you got to start making the bed the minute your feet hit the floor? You need to lighten up, girl. Live a little!' Then she'd laugh, delighted with herself and at my inability to be angry with her.
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― Black Ice: A Memoir
― Black Ice: A Memoir
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