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Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on his face.

— Peter Abrahams Mine Boy (1946)

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If a woman loves a man she does that which is good for him.

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An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.

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You write in English and already you are touching things that should not be mentioned.

Tell Freedom (1954)

The concerts and theatres, the libraries and the parks, the bookshops and the clean, fresh looking tearooms, the buses and departmental stores.

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All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back.

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