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Carson is Robert Clifton and Willie’s son. Carson is initially resentful of Willie because she gives him no information about his father, who split up with Willie after violating her in a jazz club bathroom to please a white man. Carson goes in and out of schools, then prisons as he joins the Civil Rights movement. At the beginning of his chapter, he works for the NAACP but becomes desperate to make a change in his life when he sees how downtrodden the people in Harlem are. He then finds a job in a jazz club and meets Amani, who introduces him to dope. He becomes an addict and has a son with Amani named Marcus before eventually getting clean.
Carson / Sonny Quotes in Homegoing
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Part 2: Willie
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How she could put his skin to good use, be less cautious if she were him. If she could, she would put her voice in his body, in his skin.
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Part 2: Sonny
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He was mad at her because he didn’t have a father, and she was mad at him because he’d become as absent as his own.
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“We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.” She swept her hand in front of her, as though she were trying to catch all of Harlem in it, all of New York, all of America.
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Carson / Sonny Quotes in Homegoing
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Part 2: Willie
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How she could put his skin to good use, be less cautious if she were him. If she could, she would put her voice in his body, in his skin.
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Part 2: Sonny
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He was mad at her because he didn’t have a father, and she was mad at him because he’d become as absent as his own.
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“We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.” She swept her hand in front of her, as though she were trying to catch all of Harlem in it, all of New York, all of America.
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