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No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

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he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.
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We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.
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Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed on the knees or with folded palms. For Akua, prayer was a frenzied chant, a language for those desires of the heart that even the mind did not recognize were there.
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Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
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As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her flesh.
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