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Anger grew inside him like a ripening seed and the tendrils of its burgeoning writhed along his bones, through his muscles, into his mind.

— Alex La Guma In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972)

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Trouble. There’s always trouble.’ He spoke as if trouble was something he experienced all the time, but trouble was a stranger to her.

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That's all they know. Shooting us people.

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The old man made a small, honking, animal noise and dropped back on the bed.

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We all good enough to be servants. Because we’re black, they think we good enough just to change their nappies.

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