Integrating quotes into a paper is a very important task, and takes lots of practice. There are many aspects that go into adding evidence into your paper. You have to find the right quote, introduce it in an appropriate way, and follow it up to connect why this quote is significant and helps build your claim. In this paper, I had to integrate many quotes from three different authors and not only connect this quotes to the paper, but relate the quotes between authors.

“From centires ago till today, America owes so much to blacks for their sufferage, discrimination and pain they have gone through because of these laws put in place by whites to rise against them. The HR 40 is a bill that was created to study the idea of reparations to Blacks in America today. This bill only talks about “‘…studying [reparations]…we [America] study everything. We study the water, the air. We can’t even study the issue? This bill does not authorise one red cent to anyone’”(Coates pg 15). This bill does not permit any sort of payment to anyone. This bill was created just to study how these reparations could be done and paid off. But the government will not even let this bill go to the house floor.”

This is from my third paragraph, and I do a really nice job here of appropriately introducing this quote into the paper, and explaining the quote after. Sometimes I put quotes into a paper and forget to explain fully how and why it is an important piece of evidence. It is also important to connect this quotes to other evidence later in the paragraph.

“Why would the house not even be interested in studying the reparations owed to the blacks of America today? I believe that the United States government does not want to admit what this country was truly grown from. Without being able to repay the debts we owe, we cannot be one whole country. Carol Dweck would categorize the American Government with a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset is defined by one who does not like challenges, and believes they can avoid discomfort. They “…have run from difficulty… They run from the error. They don’t engage with it [the challenge]” (Dweck 7:33). The American Government has run far and for centuries to avoid this challenging topic. The political leaders today pride themselves in creating a better country for everyone, but the country cannot become better with the lies of the past. They believe that running from the HR 40 will make it disappear, or solve the problem; running will do neither.”

This is the second half of this paragraph, and I connect the two ideas very well and make it clear how they support each other. These two ideas support my claim well in this paper, and these two pieces of evidence make it clear to the reader.