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13 Cards in this Set
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"A gun? Whut you want with a gun?"
"Ah wanna keep it." "You ain't nothing but a boy. You don't need a gun." "Aw, lemme have the catlog, Mistah Joe. Ah'Il bring it back." |
Title: Almos' A Man Author: Richard Wright Date: 1940 |
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"Why she is not. She's going to Ellisville, Ed," said Mrs Carson gently. "Mrs Watts and I and Aimee Slocum are paying her way out of our own pockets. Besides, the boys of Victory are on their honor. Lily's not going to get married, that's just an idea she's got in her head."
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Title: Lilly Daw and the Three Ladies
Author: Eudora Welty Date: 1941 |
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You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. |
Title: My Papa's Waltz
Author: Theodore Roethke Date: 1942 |
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He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime, and infestedwith tiny white sea-lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down |
Title: The Fish
Author: Elizabeth Bishop Date: 1946 |
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My aunt was inside what seemed like a long time and while I waited I read the National Geographic |
Title: In the Waiting Room Author: Elizabeth Bishop Date: 1971 |
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The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing. "Learn it to the younguns," he whispered fiercely; then he died. |
Title: Invisible Man Author: Ralph Ellison Date: 1947 |
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Forgive me, dear. I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, Ican’t cry. I don’t understand it. Why did you ever do that? Helpme Willy, I can’t cry. It seems to me that you’re just on anothertrip. |
Title: Death of a Salesman Author: Arthur Miller Date: 1949 |
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I just lay on the mountain meadow side in the moonlight, head to grass, and heard the silent recognition of my temporary woes. |
Title: Alone on a Mountaintop Author: Jack Kerouac Date: 1960 |
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"Yes, it's a beautiful day," said the grandmother. "Listen," she said, "you shouldn't call yourself The Misfit because I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell."
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Title: A Good Man is Hard to Find Author: Flannery O'Connor Date: 1953 |
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who thought they were only mad when Baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy, who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on the impulse of winter midnight streetlight smalltown rain |
Title: Howl Author: Allen Ginsberg Date: 1956 |
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There's something about the nature of thetape, the grain of the image, the sputteringblack-and-white tones, the starkness-youthink this is more real, truer to life than anythingaround you
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Title: Videotape Author: Don DeLillo Date: 1994 |
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Como te estaba diciendo,
today was payday. You saw them, la migra came busting in waving their pinche pistolas. |
Title: El Sonovabitche Author: Gloria Anzaldua Date:1987 |
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"I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been saving 'em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will!" I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they were old~fashioned, out of style.
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Title: Everyday Use Author: Alice Walker Date: 1973 |
