“Thus all [Frederick Douglass’s] life he had to fall back upon what was fundamental
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“Thus all [Frederick Douglass’s] life he had to fall back upon what was fundamental in his experience, remembering that the key to his basic identity lay neither in books, nor in white men’s minds, but in the slavery-scars on his back.” - Ralph Ellison, in our list of the very best sentences we’ve published in the past 100 years. Illustration by Peter Oumanski. -- source link
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