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find the right words, I had thought to myself. With the right words everything could change-South Africa, the lives of ghetto ki ...
Regina ignored my sarcasm. “That’s what made it so effective,” she said. “You spoke from the heart, Barack. It made people want ...
“You think that’s funny?” she said to me. Her voice was shaking, barely a whisper. “Is that what’s real to you, Barack-making a ...
world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities. Th ...
You will be pleased to know that all your brothers and sisters here are fine, and send their greetings. Like me, they approve of ...
older balding man with a glass eye, was sitting across the table from us, and he had noticed Marcus reading a book on the econom ...
And right then I realized that Marcus needed my help as much as I needed his, that I wasn’t the only one searching for answers. ...
“Tooth and claw, Barack. Stop worrying about the rest of these bums out here and figure out how you’re going to make some money ...
were the rows and rows of uninhabitable tenements, in front of which young men counted out their rolls of large bills, and winos ...
One evening, while thumbing through The Village Voice, my mother’s eyes lit on an advertisement for a movie, Black Orpheus, that ...
“You guys arranging a visit?” I told her briefly of my plans as she dug out a stamp from the bottom of her purse. Actually she c ...
your father saying, serious as can be, ‘You see, gentlemen. I told you that she was a fine girl, and that she would wait for me. ...
I stood before the cell, opened the padlock, and set it carefully on a window ledge. My father was before me, with only a cloth ...
power, on through Ray and Frank, Marcus and Regina; my move to New York; my father’s death. I can see that my choices were never ...
“Organizing? That’s some kinda politics, ain’t it? Why you wanna do something like that?” I tried to explain my political views, ...
“I can’t come after all,” she said. “One of our brothers, David...he’s been killed. In a motorcycle accident. I don’t know any m ...
Terrific guy, Jack. He’d be interested in meeting a young man like you. Of course I’m a registered Democrat, but we have to lear ...
“What do you mean by that?” He shrugged. “I don’t know what exactly. But something. Don’t get me wrong-anger’s a requirement for ...
The old fluted park lamps flickered to life; a long brown barge rolled through the gray waters toward the sea. I sat down on a b ...
Fourteen years later, the city appeared much prettier. It was another July, and the sun sparkled through the deep green trees. T ...
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