Morrison wants us ashamed of how we treat the powerless, even if we, too, feel powerless.
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There is somebody in all of us. This fact is our shared experience, our shared category: the human.
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[A] form of self-regard, for Morrison, was the road back to the human—the insistence that you are somebody although the structures you have lived within have categorized you as “nobody.”
Zadie Smith, newyorker.
