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Faces at the Bottom of the Well (1992)
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
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The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
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Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather
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Born:
November 6, 1930
Died:
October 5, 2011
(aged 80)
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