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Jean 2022-09-18 19:19:58
"The more God values, the more Satan covets"
Denver wore a dark suit and orange shirt at Daisy's funeral, looking handsome to the peak of his life. It was Mr. and Mrs. Daisy who allowed this irascible tramp to stand in front of everyone with dignity. As the closest friends of the family, they looked back on this lady's angelic....
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Summer 2022-09-18 20:07:04
The way I want love
I didn't understand it at first, and the rhythm arrangement was a bit tiring. However, the description of the realistic scenes of racial discrimination in it, what is considered a violation of white women at a glance, and because there is no education, no knowledge of the outside world, no...
Ty Parker
Extended Reading
Same Kind of Different as Me quotes
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[first lines]
Ron Hall: [narrating] It's quite a home, isn't it? 15,000 square feet of overpriced art and big ol' bathtubs. I know it's ridiculous, but I love it. After all, I'm from Texas. We tend to like things big down here.
Ron Hall: This is my home. And you probably can't tell, it's broken. There's a story behind that. One that begins and ends with a girl I married. Debbie hall. A girl with a heart so big that Texas can't even hold it. So I'm gonna try to write it all down. Hopefully make some sense out of how I got here. Problem is, I've never written anything. I'm not an author. I'm an art dealer.
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Denver: Something about white folks that really bothers me. I hear when white folks go fishing, they do this thing they call "catch and release."
Ron Hall: Yeah. Well, you know, it's just a sport. You know? Sometimes you just fish for fun.
Denver: Fun?
Ron Hall: Mmm.
Denver: See, where I growed up on a plantation, we'd go out in the morning, dig us up some worms, cut us a cane pole, sit on the riverbank all day. When we finally caught something on the line, we was real proud of what we caught. We'd take it back home, show it off, and share it with all the folk. See, it bothers me that white folk go through all of that trouble, and when they finally got something on the line, they throw it back. So, it occurred to me that if you is a white man that is fishing for a friend, and you're just gonna catch and release, then I got no desire to be your friend.
