"I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do."

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My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me to our people down there and I didn't want to go. In those days, the South was still a place where black kids were lynched. Something horrible could happen to you. I've had that feeling my whole life.

— John Edgar Wideman