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“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world and this…

— Susan Orlean

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about…

— Tony Horwitz

“Lee had a low opinion of black abilities, and thought that Virginia would be better off it its freed black population now migrated south…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less…

— Robert Sarah

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it began to…

— James Baldwin

“The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some…

— Nnedi Okorafor

“the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed at his heart?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary, for the…

— Luis Fenollosa Emilio

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon, and your…

— William Somerset Maugham

“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like…

— J.R.R. Tolkien