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restrictive covenants violated the California Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment, which mandates equal protection
“He opened his eyes before many of our people did,”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Obiora asked, and I looked at him again. He was a bold, male version of what I could never have been at fourteen, what I still was not.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“He was still smiling as I quietly turned and went back to the bedroom. I never smiled after we said the rosary back home. None of us did.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“When Papa prayed for Papa-Nnukwu, he asked only that God convert him and save him from the raging fires of hell.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“I don’t regret my alcoholism anymore. Before I left California my youngest son, Joel, came to breakfast. The same son I used to steal from, who had told me I wasn’t his mother. I cooked cheese blintzes; we drank coffee and read the paper, muttering to each other about Rickey Henderson, George Bush. Then he went to work. He kissed me and said So long, Ma. So long, I said.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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