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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.'
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