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You are Colored. There are three kinds of people: white people, Colored people, and black people. The white people come first, then the Colored people, then the black people. Lee asks “Why?” but Aunt’s answer is, “Because it is so.

— Peter Abrahams Tell Freedom (1954)

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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.

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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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