“I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was always talking about unions and unity. But he had a way of explaining the meanings of words in utter simplicity, like "work" which he translated into "power," and "power" into "security." I was drawn to him because I felt that he had lived in many places where the courage of men was tested with the cruelest weapons conceivable.”
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“You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.”
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“Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.”
― America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
― America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
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