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whose path was almost painful, so absolutely necessary had its equilibrium and duration become; it tore at the nerves of those [other than Armstrong, apparently] who followed it” [italics mine].
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
“I am not a pretty woman,” said Maud Martha. “If you married a pretty woman, you could be the father of pretty children. Envied by people. The father of beautiful children.” “But I don’t know,” said Paul. “Because my features aren’t fine. They aren’t regular. They’re heavy. They’re real Negro features. I’m light, or at least I can claim to be a sor
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insist that literature is not only “universal” but also “race-free” risks lobotomizing that literature, and diminishes both the art and the artist.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William
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fiction with detail and nuance.
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
The “one precise, unique note, tracing a sound
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
all she ever wanted in this life was to find her freedom. But back in the prison doorway, waving the book in triumph, she knows. This is her freedom. This one. The freedom to be equal to the terrors of the day.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the book for which Arendt is best remembered.