Vikram Dutt

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“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.”
― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

tags: african-americans, blacks, danger, death, murder

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“The allegiances I owed at this time in my life would have made very strange bedfellows: Momma with her solemn determination, Mrs. Flowers and her books, Bailey with his love, my mother and her gaiety, Miss Kirwin and her information, my evening classes of drama and dance.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“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.”
― William James

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“Maybe the cops have got him."

The knowledge of what police do to black men rose wraithlike before my eyes.”
― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

tags: african-americans, blacks, cops, police, police-brutality

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