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#1 Vivian Baxter was the firstborn of the Baxter children. Her father, a Trinidadian with a heavy Caribbean accent, had jumped from a banana boat in Tampa, Florida, and evaded immigration agents successfully all his life. He spoke often and loudly with pride about being an American citizen.
#2 Vivian's father made her brothers tough, and she followed suit. She would...
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#1 I believe that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and have children, and call that growing up. But what we really do is grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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#1 I was hired by the telephone company, but after making the marks on the telephone test, I was told I had not passed. I was offered a job as a bus girl in the cafeteria, but I lasted a week. I hated the salary, so I spent it all afternoon I quit.
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#1 I began to write. I limited myself to short sketches, then song lyrics, then short stories. I wanted to leave Los Angeles and move to New York, where I could find my own niche and become a success.
#2 I met my mother in 1959 in Fresno, California. She was wearing her Dobbs hat and tan suede suit. I was scared of how people would react to me, but she assured me that...
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#1 I was returning to the United States, and I felt out of place in the white-dominated airplane. I thought about the political climate in America, which was also turbulent. I knew that the air in America was no less turbulent than in Ghana.
#2 I had started making plans to go back to America to work with Malcolm. My friends and colleagues began treating me...
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#1 I had brought my son Guy to enter the University of Ghana in Accra. I planned staying for two weeks with a friend of a colleague, settling Guy into his dormitory, then continuing to Liberia to a job with the Department of Information.
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