The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and, yes, the bitterness and biases that make up the black experience in America.

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That is why I understand, at least in theory, the bitterness that seems to come to people who have been unlucky in love for the first 3-4 decades of their lives.

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