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“My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.”
― The Color of Water
― The Color of Water
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.”
― The Good Lord Bird
― The Good Lord Bird
“The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.”
― The Color of Water
― The Color of Water
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.”
― The Good Lord Bird
― The Good Lord Bird
“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”
― The Color of Water
― The Color of Water
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