Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans, 1760 to the Present |
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Page 173
... felt , ought to have a special sort of woman . He felt a deep and strange reluctance to phone any of the women whom he habitually sent to men . Yet he had promised . Could he lie and say that none was available ? No. That sounded too ...
... felt , ought to have a special sort of woman . He felt a deep and strange reluctance to phone any of the women whom he habitually sent to men . Yet he had promised . Could he lie and say that none was available ? No. That sounded too ...
Page 313
... felt as though I had done my sufferin ' ; I felt as though I had done enough sufferin ' for me and for all the sins of all my ancestors . You know ? " " Yeah , Danny , sometimes I felt as though you'd done it too , like you'd suffered ...
... felt as though I had done my sufferin ' ; I felt as though I had done enough sufferin ' for me and for all the sins of all my ancestors . You know ? " " Yeah , Danny , sometimes I felt as though you'd done it too , like you'd suffered ...
Page 350
... felt the same tensions of lust and desire in his chest - and probably for the same general reasons that I felt them . It was all unacceptable to me . I looked at the picture again and again , and in spite of everything and against my ...
... felt the same tensions of lust and desire in his chest - and probably for the same general reasons that I felt them . It was all unacceptable to me . I looked at the picture again and again , and in spite of everything and against my ...
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