"Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends……" — James A. Baldwin

"Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people."

James A. Baldwin

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