“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
