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Young man, let me just say this, I’m one-sixteenth black, an eighth Irish, two-fifths Choctaw, one-thirty-second Dutch, a quarter English, and a ninth German.”
Percival Everett • I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel
when precisely did the author know she was in trouble?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
We gave birth to babies that were American citizens and in whose names we could finally lease land.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.
Chang-rae Lee • On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
Leni saw Mama softening, reshaping her needs to match his, imagining this new personality: Alaskan.
Kristin Hannah • The Great Alone
“And,” says Doris Lessing, in her preface to African Stories, “while the cruelties of the white man toward the black man are among the heaviest counts in the indictment against humanity, colour prejudice is not our original fault, but only one aspect of the atrophy of the imagination that prevents us from seeing ourselves in every creature that bre
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
It makes white women uncomfortable to think that they are no different from their hired help.