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Black Boy
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and what moved me above all was the frequency of mental illness, that tragic toll that the urban environment exacted of the black peasant.
Carter G. Woodson spoke of this in The Mideducation of the Negro.
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
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“See you on Titan,” said the grin. And then it was gone.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“How easily we forget-we in the business of storytelling- that life was the point all along.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
On the Southern Literary Trail
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