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That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.

We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.

The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.

Go and be fish again.

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.