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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 3.

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. George W. Jacobs and Company, 1909, ch. 13.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. Routledge, 2015, ch. 13.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

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Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.

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Smith, Zadie. "That Crafty Feeling." 24 Mar. 2008, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.

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Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Montage of a Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.

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Morrison, Toni. Quoted in Essence. Apr. 1984.

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks

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Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or being slaves.

Jupiter Hammon

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Hammon, Jupiter. "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York." 24 Sept. 1786, New York, NY, USA.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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Angelou, Maya. "Phenomenal Woman." And Still I Rise. Random House, 1978, I. 6.

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Hughes, Langston. "Let America Be America Again." Esquire Magazine, July 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Color. Harper & Brothers, 1925, I. 5.

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Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Countee Cullen: Collected Poems, edited by Major Jackson. Library of America, 2013, I. 5.

Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere.

Cornel West

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West, Cornell. "Cornell West's Catastrophic Love." BigThink.com, 6 Nov. 2009.