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Hello Beautiful

by Ann Napolitano (Goodreads Author)

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Coisas de Loucos: O Que Eles Deixaram no Manicómio

by Catarina Gomes (Goodreads Author)

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bruna’s Quotes

“Which would frighten you more? A slave who is crazy or a slave who is sane and sees you clearly?”
― Percival Everett, James

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“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

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“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.”
― Percival Everett, James

tags: african-americans, blacks, expectations, fear, language, race, race-relations, slaves, whites

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