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" I didn’t dream this. Terrible noise. Terrible hollering. I slept through the hollering. Terrible wind-against-earth."

"My eyesight is years I see up yes did this Yes you this I saw"

"My enemies eat meats & vegetables at tables in white houses where candles blaze, cast shadows of crosses, & flowers."

"Do you know anything about your people?"

"Our eyes. Where you see misunderstanding"

"I was thinking how the songs coming from the radio were like the speech of a single human American psyche"

"...here in the photograph I am tired of looking at. In which there is no woman whatsoever, especially not the mother of Jesse Washington whose charred body hangs from a chain in a chestnut tree in Waco Texas in 1916."

"They are all sweat, hustle, break, forgetting minutes, hours, deaths they’ve inhaled"

"palmettos—symbols of victory or defiance, over and over"

Bring only what you must carry—tome of memory, its random blank pages.

"My parents would have had me believe there was no such thing as race"

" 'You belong in our swamps not our schools!" they rage"