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accept. Ask Miss O'Hara about him."
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
revealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.
James Baldwin • The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross (Penguin Modern Classics)
He could remember Red’s droopy red mustache hanging over him, and Louise’s white face and rain-dark hair hovering ghostily in the doorway. He couldn’t remember what Red Farris had said, but Red had left a note with his presents, all of which Hoke found later in his bedside table.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)
‘I mean you could have been fair to me by despising me a little less.’ ‘I’m sorry. But I think, since you bring it up, that a lot of your life is despicable.’ ‘I could say the same about yours,’ said Jacques. ‘There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of
... See moreJames Baldwin • Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
You must realize the fear and hatred which my weltanschauung instills in people.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
On the 27th I went again to trial and, as had been predicted, the case against us was dismissed. The story of the drap de lit, finally told, caused great merriment in the courtroom, whereupon my friend decided that the French were “great.” I was chilled by their merriment, even though it was meant to warm me. It could only remind me of the laughter
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
The scene which met my eyes was at once compelling and repelling. The original sweatshop has been preserved for posterity at Levy Pants. If only the Smithsonian Institution, that grab bag of our nation’s refuse, could somehow vacuum-seal the Levy Pants factory and transport it to the capital of the United States of America, each worker frozen in an
... See moreJohn Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
Shame, horror, and humor are cast upon Appalachia. It is the Whitest region of the South and among the poorest, plagued by failed American dreams. Whether or not people use the distasteful pejorative “trash,” they often imply and apply it to the people here.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other... book by Flannery O'Connor
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