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"Help me!" he yelled again, and then he cried out, "Please!" He said it like the child he always was, begging. And I noted, however uncharitably, even there in the Goose facing my own death, that I had never before recalled him speaking in a manner that reflected the true nature of our positions.
Excerpted from The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Copyright © 2019 by Ta-Nehisi Coates. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.
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