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Nella Larsen

  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Absurd! Impossible! White people were so stupid about such things for all that they usually asserted that they were able to tell; and by the most ridiculous means: fingernails, palms of hands, shapes of ears, teeth, and other equally silly rot. They always took her for an Italian, a Spaniard, a Mexican, or a Gypsy. N
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Margery was born for fear that she might be dark. Thank goodness, she turned out all right.
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Irene didn’t like changes, particularly changes that affected the smooth routine of her household.
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Looking at the woman before her, Irene Redfield had a sudden inexplicable onrush of affectionate feeling. Reaching out, she grasped Clare’s two hands in her own and cried with something like awe in her voice: “Dear God! But aren’t you lovely, Clare!”
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life that she had not been born a Negro.
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Because somebody called Junior a dirty nigger
  • Natali Klimenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Strange that she couldn’t now be sure that she had ever truly known love. Not even for Brian. He was her husband and the father of her sons. But was he anything more? Had she ever wanted or tried for more? In that hour she thought not.
  • Tony Xumembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Certainly that was the word which best described Clare Kendry, if any single word could describe her. Sometimes she was hard and apparently without feeling at all; sometimes she was affectionate and rashly impulsive. And there was about her an amazing soft malice, hidden well away until provoked.
  • Sophia Millermembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    This great community, she thought, was no longer a school. It had grown into a machine. It was now a showplace in the black belt, exemplification of the white man’s magnanimity, refutation of the black man’s inefficiency. Life had died out of it. It was, Helga decided, now only a big knife with cruelly sharp edges ruthlessly cutting all to a pattern, the white man’s pattern. Teachers as well as students were subjected to the paring process, for it tolerated no innovations, no individualisms. Ideas it rejected, and looked with open hostility on one and all who had the temerity to offer a suggestion or ever so mildly express a disapproval. Enthusiasm, spontaneity, if not actually suppressed, were at least openly regretted as unladylike or ungentlemanly qualities.
  • Sophia Millermembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    It couldn’t be spanned by one sympathetic teacher. It was useless to offer her atom of friendship, which under the existing conditions was neither wanted nor understood.
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