"Race prejudice is the devil unchained."

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Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.143, Xist Publishing

Charles W. Chesnutt

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“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”
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“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”
“At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.”
“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
“You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.”
“here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
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