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“No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.”

Book:Lead Me Home

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“{H}istory records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded--all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are set down, those lies his keepers keep their power by.”

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Book:Invisible Man

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“I wanted to belong to Iris when I didn't even belong to myself.”

Novel African American Authors African American Fiction

Book:Yonder

Source: Yonder

“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had an obligation to resist instead of giving in. I rose unsteadily to my feet, aware of my shackles, but determined to somehow overcome them.”

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Book:Yonder

Source: Yonder

“Will this ever be over?" "In time. When the Thieves find something else worth stealing." "And then what?" "They'll tell the Stolen that they dreamed it all up. That the worst things never happened.”

Fiction Novel African American Authors

Book:Yonder

Source: Yonder

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