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“It would have been near impossible to maintain formality under a small town's invasions of privacy.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Among my associates, there were no takers. Understandably the boys of my age and social group were captivated by the yellow-or light-brown-skinned girls, with hairy legs and smooth little lips, and whose hair “hung down like horses' manes.” And even those sought-after girls were asked to “give it up or tell where it is.” They were reminded in a popular song of the times, “If you can't smile and say yes, please don't cry and say no.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Only equals make friends.”
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“When someone tells you who and what they are. Believe them the first time. They know themselves better than you do. They know what they’ve lived. You don’t. You only see an exterior. And whether you choose to invalidate them or not then, is up to the person that ‘you’ are.”
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“When the spell wore off he asked Uncle Willie what colored people had done to white people in the first place.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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