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The Color of Water Quotes
"Rachel Shilsky is dead as far as I'm concerned. She had to die in order for me, the rest of me, to live." Chap. 1, Dead, p. 2
"Her oddness, her complete nonawareness of what the world thought of her, a nonchalance in the face of what I perceived to be imminent danger from blacks and whites who disliked her for being a white person in a black world. She saw none of it." Chap. 2, The Bicycle, p. 5
"But there was a part of me that feared black power very deeply for the obvious reason. I thought black power would be the end of my mother. I had swallowed the white man's fear of the Negro, as we were called back then, whole." Chap. 4, Black Power, p. 19
"We attracted a lot of attention when we traveled because we were poor and Jewish and my mother was...
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