As I pour tea and coffee, an emaciated black man in a filthy sweatshirt shakes my hand warmly and asks me how I'm doing today.

当我倒茶倒咖啡时，一个穿着脏兮兮的运动衫的瘦弱黑人男子热情地握着我的手，问我今天过得怎么样。

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A few weeks later, I recognized that people didn't think of me as black.

几周之后，我才发现，人们并非把我当做黑人看待。

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A lady with a large, sparkly spider brooch asks me what size I think she would take in a black dress she is admiring.

一位带着一枚闪闪发光的大蜘蛛胸针的女士，正在欣赏着一件黑色的礼服，过来问我她能穿多大号的。

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I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

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For a few weeks, I was able to recognize that people weren't looking at me as African American or black.

几周之后，我才发现，人们并非,把我当做黑人看待。

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As I told the teaching fellows, I had a colleague in those days who looked at me enviously and said he wished he had the black leather concession at the door.

我跟学生讲，有个同事特别羡慕我,希望自己的门上也有那样的黑色皮革。

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Mr. GORDON PARKS (Photographer, Life magazine): I remember my mother specifically telling me that she would not accept any excuses because I was black and that I failed this or failed that, or this was denied me or that was denied me because I was black.

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Many people told me I had three strikes against me: I was black.

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When she swivelled in her chair and smiled at me, I saw that her eyes were black, too, and her lips very red.

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