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Book: The Water Dancer
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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Water Dancer

    The masters could not bring water to boil, harness to horse or strap their own drawers without us. We were better than them. We had to be. Sloth was literal death for us, while for them it was the whole ambition of their lives.
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  2. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Water Dancer

    Time would come when gold would outweigh blood. But this was still Virginia of old, where a dubious God held that those who would offer a man for sale were somehow more honorable than those who effected that sale.
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  3. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Water Dancer

    But I was a boy, seeing in him what boys can't help but see in their fathers-a mold in which their own manhood might be cast.
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  4. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Water Dancer

    It's a cruel thing to do to children, to raise them as though they are siblings, and then set them against each other so that one shall be queen and the other shall be a footstool.
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