Flora pretended to cuddle me against the cold, but I didn't need her kind of emotional excitation. She talked about 'the girls' in there, and my mother was one of them.
Part I, P. 15

For nearly thirty years the Communist Party allied itself as a legal organization with the African struggle for black rights and the extension of the franchise to the black majority.
Part I, P. 26

Conrad went off some evenings for Spanish lessons and sometimes came back with the girl who taught him.
Part I, P. 40

The will is my own. The emotion's my own. The right to be inconsolable. When I feel, there's no 'we', only 'I'.
Part I, P. 52

Once a month I sat as they had sent me to take their messages and receive his, a female presented to him with the smiling mouth, the gazing yet evasive eyes, the breasts drooping a...