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"Look at the shape of this skull, this face as flat as the palm of my hand—look deeply into those eyes. Do
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“I’m the teacher ... and I teach what the white folks around here tell me to teach—reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. They never told me how to keep a black boy out of a liquor store.” pg 13 Grant only does and says what the white men tell him to. He struggles with the justice he wants for his people and the expectations of white men.
