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A Grain of Wheat (1967)
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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The morning itself was so dull we feared the day would not break into life. But the rain had stopped. The air was soft and fresh, and an intimate warmth oozed from the pregnant earth to our hearts.
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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Born:
January 5, 1938
Died:
May 28, 2025
(aged 87)
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