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I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.Rita WilliamsGarcia
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It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.Rita WilliamsGarcia
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The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.Rita WilliamsGarcia