"We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us."

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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.

— Ernest Gaines