Status Updates From A Ripple from the Storm (Ch...

finally i have decided to subject myself to a book that is actually good

This lady, in appearance like a newly washed Sealyham, with fluffy white hair under which fierce but faded eyes peeped out;

.. and once again the meeting became a free-for-all on brotherhood, freedom and racial equality. In the midst of this Mr Matushi and his two friends left, for the reason they always had to leave meetings early: it was after curfew time and they had no passes to be out late.

Had Brother Jack in fact said the things he was supposed to have said?
Every word, said Jack. In his view the British were rapacious imperialist exploiters of India and he insisted on his right to say so any time or any place he wanted.

On the top of a half-finished wall Piet sat straddled, setting bricks into place which were handed up to him by a black man. The rule was that Africans might mix mortar, collect bricks, hand mortar and bricks to the white men, but they might not set the bricks into place, which was skilled work reserved for the white men.

She was already pregnant, but her first child was her husband, and she thereby put herself beyond being hurt by him.