Nella Larsen Quotes
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Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
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I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them.…
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I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
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What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?
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These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic…
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade…
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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at…
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