“For practical life at any rate, the CHANCE of salvation is enough. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference. . .between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”
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“Maybe the cops have got him."
The knowledge of what police do to black men rose wraithlike before my eyes.”
― The Heart of a Woman
The knowledge of what police do to black men rose wraithlike before my eyes.”
― The Heart of a Woman
“Sister, in this country a Negro is always about to get killed, so that ain't nothing. But you tell your husband that a black man was ready to lay down his life for you. That's all.”
― The Heart of a Woman
― The Heart of a Woman
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