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10 Cards in this Set
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Girl |
Because I am a girl, I do not get a gun. Instantly I am relegated to the position of Indian. Now there appears a great distance between us |
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accident |
...(I cannot decide whether it was an “accident” or not)... |
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Change |
“You did not change,” they say. Did I imagine the anguish of never looking up? |
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Class |
Ironically, the girl who was voted most beautiful in our class (and was) was later shot twice through the chest by a male companion, using a “real” gun, while she was pregnant. But that’s another story in itself. Or is it? |
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Cringe |
Something inside me cringes, gets ready to try to protect myself. All children are cruel about physical differences… |
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Gall |
The gall of n****rs coming in here dressed better than me! |
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Mother |
My mother, who is a walking history of our community… |
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Blindness |
Blindness about other human beings, especially for a writer, is equivalent to death |
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Outcasts |
Outcasts to be used and humiliated by the larger society, the Southern black sharecropper and poor farmer clung to his own kind… |
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World |
For not only is he in a position to see his own world...he is capable of knowing… the people who makeup up the larger world that surrounds as suppresses his own |
