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Towards the end of the essay Staple's quotes Podhoretz's words, "special brand of paranoid touchiness". Staples integrates this quotation as a detail to support his claim of rage he has. Staples is throwing this quotation from Podhoretz to have a second supporting opinion to his case that he is telling. Staples tells of the difficult perceptions he receives as a black man and the paranoia he has being black. Adding this second party text gives more evidence to his feelings and emotions that he explains in the paper. The specific words he chooses from Podhoretz's text are direct to the emotions he wanted portrayed. Staples connects the text with a sentence telling who the other author is speaking then connecting it to his own personal experience. I thought that Staple's did a good job involving the text in the paragraph it was in. He tied it in to his own personal experience. However, I had to reread the paragraph a few times to grasp the true meaning of Podhoretz's words. I would suggest he throw another sentence or two describing in more detail what that "special brand of paranoid touchiness" means.