![]() ![]() I did not smell the air here in this city so much as feel it. This astonishing portrait was set against the most offensive odors known to man. It is a cruel thing to do to children, to raise them as though they are siblings, and then set them against each other so that one shall be a queen and the other shall be a footstool. ![]() ![]() They are both weaned on the religion of society, of slavery, which holds that for no particularly good reason one of them will live in the palace, while the other will be condemned to the dungeon. They grow together, and as the play hours decline, the ritual changes. She was wistful as she said this, and I felt I understood how it happened for girls like her, how it began for them as children, when they played together with their one-day mistresses, caring nothing for color, and were told to love them, as they would love any other playmate. Project maintained by pierd Hosted on GitHub Pages - Theme by mattgraham 4 August 2020 Ta-Nehisi Coates "The Water Dancer" ![]()
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