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I, too, sing America By: Langston Hughes //I am the darker brother.// //They send me to eat in the kitchen// //When company comes,// //But I laugh,// //And eat well,// //And grow strong.// //Tomorrow,// //I'll be at the table// //When company comes.// //Nobody'll dare// //Say to me,// //"Eat in the kitchen,"// //Then.// //Besides,// //They'll see how beautiful I am// //And be ashamed--// //I, too, am America.//

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."- W.E.B. Dubois

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."- W.E.B. Dubois

"The two of them made a pact: whichever one got a chance to run would take it; together if possible, alone if not, and no looking back. He got his chance, and since she never heard otherwise she believed he made it."(Morrison, 165)

"Because there was no way in hell a black face could appear in a newspaper if the story was about something anybody wanted to hear... Nor was it there because the person had been killed, or maimed or caught or burned or jailed or whipped or evicted or stomped or raped or cheated, since that could hardly qualify as news in a newspaper." (Morrison, 181)

"Tell me this one thing. How much is a nigger supposed to take? Tell me. How much?" (Morrison, 271)

"The effect of the symbol- or rather, of the position in respect to society that was indicated by it- on the mind of Hester Prynne herself, was powerful and peculiar. All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up by this red-hot brand, and had long ago fallen away, leaving a bare and harsh outline, which might had been repulsive, had she possessed friends or companions to be repelled by it." (Hawthorne, 142)

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Camilla's Reflections Camilla's Views on America's Reluctance to Change Camilla's Views on the American Dream Camilla's Views on Religion in America