Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Friday, July 17, 2009.
- I KNOW THAT IN WRITING THE FOLLOWING PAGES I AM divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly possessions; and it is a curious study to me to analyse the motives which prompt me to do it.
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