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Edward P. Jones Quote: “We are all worthy of one another.”

1. “We are all worthy of one another.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.”

2. “When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “I’m fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.”

3. “I’m fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.”

4. “Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

5. “The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “At first I read mostly books by Southern authors – black and white – because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.”

6. “At first I read mostly books by Southern authors – black and white – because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “He stood there for a very long time, and the longer he stood, the more he sank. All the heart he had for living in the world began to leave him. He could feel the life running down his chest, his arms and legs, doing something for the ground that it had never been able to do for him.”

7. “He stood there for a very long time, and the longer he stood, the more he sank. All the heart he had for living in the world began to leave him. He could feel the life running down his chest, his arms and legs, doing something for the ground that it had never been able to do for him.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Most crimes and misdemeanors by slaves were dealt with by their masters; they could even hang a slave if he killed another slave, but that would have been like throwing money down a well after the slave had already thrown the first load of money down, as William Robbins once told Skiffington.”

8. “Most crimes and misdemeanors by slaves were dealt with by their masters; they could even hang a slave if he killed another slave, but that would have been like throwing money down a well after the slave had already thrown the first load of money down, as William Robbins once told Skiffington.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Priscilla watched her husband as he slowly drifted into sleep, and once he was asleep, she took hold of his hand and put it to her face and smelled all of the outside world that he had brought in with him and then she tried to find sleep herself.”

9. “Priscilla watched her husband as he slowly drifted into sleep, and once he was asleep, she took hold of his hand and put it to her face and smelled all of the outside world that he had brought in with him and then she tried to find sleep herself.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Render your body to them” his father had taught, “but know your soul belongs to God.”

10. “Render your body to them” his father had taught, “but know your soul belongs to God.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “We leave, we run away and don’t realize how much we’ll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It’s the worst mama in the world and it’s the best mama in the world.”

11. “We leave, we run away and don’t realize how much we’ll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It’s the worst mama in the world and it’s the best mama in the world.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “But where, in all she taught her son, was it about thou shall own no one, havin been owned once your own self. Don’t go back to Egypt after God done took you outa there.”

12. “But where, in all she taught her son, was it about thou shall own no one, havin been owned once your own self. Don’t go back to Egypt after God done took you outa there.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn’t seem to exist for me.”

13. “Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn’t seem to exist for me.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.”

14. “In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. Was God even up there attending to business anymore?”

15. “Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. Was God even up there attending to business anymore?”

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Edward P. Jones Quote: “As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.”

16. “As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.”

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