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'Who will protect them from their leaders?'

'But there was no pity here. Here, when the men spoke of the ruination that was upon them - how Ruby was changing in intolerable ways - they did not think to fix it by extending a hand in fellowship or love.'

'By then she knew there was something inside her that made boys snatch her and men flash her.'

'Did she thinks education was knowing just enough to get a job? She didn't seem to trust these Ruby hardheads with the future any more than he did, but neither did she encourage change. Negro history and lists of old-time achievements were enough for her but not for this generation.'

'The sign of racial purity they had taken for granted had become a stain.'

'... for ten generations they had believed the division they fought to close was free against slave and rich against poor. Usually, but not always, white against black. Now they saw a new separation: light-skinned against black.'

'The women of Ruby did not powder their faces and they wore no harlot's perfume.'

'They did everything but slap each other, and finally they did that.'

'They shoot the white girl first.'