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Book: The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
The boys knew to hide their enthusiasm over little kid things that still had an allure.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
When he heard autumn leaves skuttling in the wind, he remembered that chuckle.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
In here and out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
There are big forces that want to keep the Negro down, like Jim Crow, and there are small forces that want to keep you down, like other people, and in the face of all those things, the big ones and the smaller ones, you have to stand up straight and maintain your sense of who you are.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door."
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
Most of those who know the story of the rings in the trees are dead by now. The iron is still there. Rusty. Deep in the heartwood. Testifying to anyone who cares to listen.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
Even in death the boys were trouble.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
He ate every miserable spoonful and ever since it struck him that adults are always trying to buy off children to make them forget their bad actions.
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