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冷住2018-04-07当一个黑人在白人为主的场所朝你点头时，你必须点头回应。那称之为“黑点头”。那是黑人用来表示“你不孤单，还有我在”的一种方式。在形容你钦佩的黑人女性时，务必要用“坚强”一词，因为那是黑人女性在美国理应有的一面。假如你是女的，请别像以前在你祖国时那样直言自己内心的想法。因为在美国，有主见的黑人女性是骇人的。看电视时，你若听见用到“种族诽谤”，必须立即表现出愤慨。即便你心里想的是“可他们为何不告诉我究竟说的是什么？”即便你希望能够自己决定愤慨的程度，或到底要不要愤慨，你都必须非常愤慨。假如你要告诉一个非黑人你遇到的某件种族歧视之事，切不可忿忿不平。不要抱怨。要宽恕。如有可能，把那讲得幽默好笑。最重要的是，不能动怒。黑人不该对种族主义动怒。否则你得不到同情。附带提一句，那仅适用在自由派的白人身上。若是保守派的白人，根本别费口舌讲什么你受到的种族歧视。因为保守派会告诉你，你才是真正有种族歧视的，你会张口结舌，不明所以。
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冷住2018-04-07“我是共和党人，我们全家都是。我们非常反对福利救济，但我们做了很多支持民权的事。我只是要让你知道我们是这类共和党人。”她在她们第一次见面时对伊菲麦露说，仿佛这是需要清除的最重要的障碍。 “你想知道我是哪一类共和党人吗？”伊菲麦露问。 他的母亲先是一脸惊讶，然后舒展出一个不自然的微笑。“你很逗。” 她说。
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冷住2018-04-07日后，伊菲麦露还将慢慢了解，对金伯莉而言，穷人是无辜的。贫穷是一件光荣的事——她无法把穷人和堕落或下流联系起来，因为他们的贫穷神化了他们，最伟大的圣人是外国的穷人。
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冷住2018-04-07“你好，我叫伊菲麦露。” “多好听的一个名字，”金伯莉说，“那有什么意思吗？我喜爱多元文化下的名字，因为它们有如此美妙的含义，来源于美妙富饶的文化。”金伯莉露出亲切的微笑，那样微笑的人，把“文化”视作专属于有色人种的陌生多彩的宝藏，一个始终必须能与“富饶”挂钩的词。她不会认为挪威有”富饶的文化“。
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冷住2018-04-07在美国上学很轻松，作业用电子邮件递交，教室有空调，教授愿意给予补考。可令她不自在的是教授称之为的“参与度”，她不明白那为什么竟要算作期末成绩的一部分；那仅仅是要求学生不断发言，把课堂时间浪费在不言自明的话上，空洞的、有时是无谓的话上。那必定是美国人从小学开始就接受的教育，永远要在课堂上说点什么，不管什么内容。因此，她笨嘴拙舌地坐着，周围是安适地窝在座位上的学生，全都知识渊博，不是关于那门课，而是关于怎么在课堂上表现。他们从不说“我不知道”。他们说的是，“我不确定”。那虽然等于空话，但仍暗示出知道的可能。他们避免给出直接的指令：他们不说“问楼上的人”；他们说：“你也许需要问一下楼上的人。”当你绊脚摔倒、呛到或碰上倒霉事时，他们不说“真遗憾”，他们说“你没事吧？”而你显然有事。当他们呛到、绊到或遇到倒霉事时，你对他们说“真遗憾”，他们的反应是，惊讶地眼睛圆睁：“哦，这不是你的错。”他们动辄就说“感到兴奋”，教授对一本新书感到兴奋，学生对一堂课感到兴奋，电视上的政客对一项法律感到兴奋；总而言之，兴奋的事太多。
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冷住2018-04-07第一次，感觉到日后和他在一起时常有的一种感觉：自爱。他使她懂得欣赏自己。同他在一起，她轻松自在；她的皮肤感觉仿佛正合身。
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冷住2018-04-07来美国的第一年，当她乘新泽西干线火车到纽约的宾州车站，然后换地铁去看住在平地区的乌茱姑姑时，她赫然发现，大部分苗条的白人都在曼哈顿区的车站下车，随着火车继续驶入布鲁克林，剩下的人多数是黑人和胖子。
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冷住2018-04-07他告诉她，他和妻子收养了一个黑人小孩，邻居看他们的目光，仿佛他们选择了为一项可疑的事业而殉道。
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发福的唐吉珂徳2014-08-07But back home, as she stood and faced the mirror’s truth, she realized that she had ignored, for too long, the new tightness of her clothes, the rubbing together of her inner thighs, the softer, rounder parts of her that shook when she moved. She was fat.
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Incertus2019-11-23In the morning, the sky was overcast with slate-gray clouds, the air thick with rains foreboding. From nearby a clutch of birds screeched and flew away. The rain would come down, a sea unleashed from the sky, and DSTV images would get grainy, phone networks would clog, the roads would flood and traffic would gnarl. She stood with Dike on the verandah as the early droplets came down."I kind of like it here, " he told her.
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Incertus2019-11-21“Yes, yes, I have come to take charge of you! Welcome home!" he said humorously, and he reminded Obinze of that Nigerian ability to laugh, to so easily reach for amusement. He had missed that. "We laugh too much," his mother once said, "Maybe we should laugh less and solve our problems more."
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Incertus2019-11-21Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice and certainty.
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半个桃李林檎2013-12-24They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice and certainty.
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Incertus2019-11-14She began to think about killing the tennis coach. She would hit him on the head over and over with an axe. She would plunge a knife into his muscled chest.