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“Only equals make friends.”
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“I realized that one isn’t born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things—in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It’s the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”
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“Through food we learned that there were other people in the world.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“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
“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
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