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• ‟ People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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• ‟ I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

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• ‟ People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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• ‟ People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

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• ‟ Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

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• ‟ People can cry much easier than they can change.

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• ‟ The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

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• ‟ No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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• ‟ The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

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• ‟ The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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