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Once word got out about who he really was, he was sure Wally was going to be ecstatic over never having to publicly acknowledge him again.
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Natalie Greer is as spoiled as a pan of milk set out in the sun.
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The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.
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bigotry practiced by those outside the race was harmful enough without bigotry being meted out by those within.
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Beauty can blind you." "But it shouldn't make you stupid."
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They forgot about us women!" When laughter broke out, she countered, "Do I look like I'm joking?"
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Eddy guessed her to be middle-aged, but like most women of color she wore her age well.
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Jake's mustache
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After putting Tonio to bed, Billie sat on her verandah as had become her custom each evening. She was very happy for Alanza. Although Billie had only met Max once, she'd liked him and decided he had to be a very special man for Alanza to want to be his wife, but her happiness was dampened by her own reality. Prince knew where she was. The news wasn't surprising but it was unsettling. She'd been serious about using everything in her power to..
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She didn't want to have to spend her days battling her reactions to those male eyes of his, but then again, maybe she'd build up an immunity to them, the way children built up an immunity to the pox.
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Queen Calafia
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Las sergas de Esplandian,
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Archer got the distinct impression that he'd offended her. An offended whore?
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They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.
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Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?
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while still another promised to find out if it was true that she ate raw skinned squirrels for breakfast and slept outside in a tepee.
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She didn't believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.
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I'd say it was more like The Real Senior Citizens of Henry Adams.
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I hear you're in line to inherit your uncle's wealth. That makes you quite the heiress. Not many Colored women can claim that." She"
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Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, "Miss July, please don't judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis."
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Since he preferred to sleep naked as Poseidon,
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a good
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Thank you for loving me, Kent, because if I was married to him, I would have killed him so many years ago, I'd be paroled by now.
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But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the"
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But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water."
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You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water."
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Because you're the county's matriarch. You're loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don't put your people through that." Tamar" --
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Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. "You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear."
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This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute." A"
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Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,
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Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix"
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Her five-feet seven-inch frame
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She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.
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Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time. They
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Jim Beckwourth,
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William Leidesdorff,
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Biddy Mason.
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the Fifteenth Amendment
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Katherine would need a panel of experts to decide which man was handsomer. Dix
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The diner's candy-apple-red jukebox, recently named Gina after songstress Regina Belle,
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Katherine thought that no man had the right to be so devastatingly handsome, especially a man she was determined not to like. Feeling herself getting dizzy from just looking at him, she sensed that if she wasn't careful, she could lose her wits around him most any time.
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What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?
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She was liking this man more and more. She
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The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose--there is no cost.
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