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Sometimes I think it done changed. And then I sleep and I wake up and it ain't changed none. It's like a snake that sheds its skin. The outside look different when the scales change, but the inside always the same.
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Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing)
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That's what a White man had to do to return to Parchman, even if he was free because he had escaped: a White man had to murder.
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Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing)