Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
You taste injustice, even if it__ fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can__ go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what it__ like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we don__ like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then you__l decide you don__ like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and you__l understand that even though all the battles can__ be won, that doesn__ mean you won__ fight.
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You taste injustice, even if it__ fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can__ go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what it__ like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we don__ like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then you__l decide you don__ like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and you__l understand that even though all the battles can__ be won, that doesn__ mean you won__ fight.
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