“Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being "called out of his name." It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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