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Most white people I know think it's a great big deal if a Negro compliments them on their tans. It's a large laugh. You have all this volleyball about color and come summer you can't hold the white folks back from the beaches, anyplace where they can get some sun. And of course the blacker they are, the more pleased they are.

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All you ever want to do is remind me that I am black. But goddamn it, I also am.

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John A. Williams

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Born: December 5, 1925
Died: July 3, 2015 (aged 89)
Bio: John Alfred Williams was an African-American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967.
Known for:
  1. Clifford's blues (1999)
  2. The angry ones (1960)
  3. Captain Blackman (1972)
  4. Click Song: A Novel (1982)
  5. One for New York (1974)

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