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“The people of Latin-America ethnologically are very little different from the Afro-American of this country,” a columnist for the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, wrote in 1915. “They have Indian blood in their veins; so have we. They
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
― The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
― The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
“Uno no es de ninguna parte mientras no tenga un muerto bajo la tierra.”
― Cien años de soledad
― Cien años de soledad
“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“Se había cansado de esperar al hombre que se quedó, a los hombres que se fueron, a los incontables hombres que erraron el camino de su casa confundidos por la incertidumbre de las barajas.”
― Cien años de soledad
― Cien años de soledad
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