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    1. temerity

      audacity

    2. talks tuh unlettered folks wid books in his jaws

      referencing his great vocab

    3. Colored folks oughtn’t tuh be so hard on one ’nother.”

      hypocritical

    4. A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely.

      Joe wants Janie as an object. Janie wants Joe as a carer.

    5. let de light penetrate inside of yuh, and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. Brother Davis, lead us in a word uh prayer.

      Joe may see himself as the savior of this town. Maybe he already had it but this making of a town made him have a God complex of sorts.

    6. Us colored folks is too envious of one ’nother. Dat’s how come us don’t git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin’ us down! Shucks! He don’t have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.”

      Even when the white people do not enslave black people, The black people still keep some of the white people's ideals .