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Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football

by Lane Demas

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Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theater, 1895-1910

by David Krasner

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“All the sins I've committed, I've done them with one objective: to keep my men alive. Those kids in my squad, those kids of mine, they are everything. My wife doesn't understand this job or why I do it. My son is too young. My dad wouldn't get it if I tried to explain. My mom would have a heart attack. The need to keep my men alive makes everything else negotiable, and everyone and everything a potential threat.”
― David Bellavia, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

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“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
― Colson Whitehead

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“It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your being there. You can spend all day jerking off as long as you describe it well.”
― Richard Hell, Go Now

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“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

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“Much later, when I thought about it, I realized that my folks were typical of their generation of parents: Their idea of raising children was making sure we were clothed, fed, and protected. They didn't focus much on us unless we were sick or had done something wrong. They didn't hold conversations with us. Love was understood rather than expressed, and values were transmitted by example, not word of mouth.”
― Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

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