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  1. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores besides Mrs. President every night? Now would they?
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  2. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.
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  3. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.
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  4. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he's doing.
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  5. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.
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