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“You can’t have trust without fairness”
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“I killed ’em ’cause I was scared and mad. But I been scared and mad all my life and after I killed that first woman, I wasn’t scared no more for a little while.â€� “What were you afraid of?â€� “Everything,â€� he breathed and buried his face in his hands. “Did you ever hope for anything, Bigger?â€� “What for? I couldn’t get it. I’m black,â€� he mumbled. “Didn’t you ever want to be happy?â€� “Yeah; I guess so,â€� he said, straightening. “How did you think you could be happy?â€� “I don’t know. I wanted to do things. But everything I wanted to do I couldn’t. I wanted to do what the white boys in school did. Some of ’em went to college. Some of’em went to the army. But I couldn’t go.â€� “But still, you wanted to be happy?â€� “Yeah; sure. Everybody wants to be happy, I reckon.â€� “Did you think you ever would be?â€� “I don’t know. I just went to bed at night and got up in the morning. I just lived from day to day. I thought maybe I would be.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree

“Nine roses around the lion…God in heaven that’s the Tumbaar coat-of-arms.”
― Steel Blood
― Steel Blood
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