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“Alex Dumas had the confidence that accompanies a life of physical exploits, along with an unwavering faith in the rightness of his actions that…

— Tom Reiss

“He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“unlikely tan on one of Lonny Zone’s whores and the crisp naval uniform of a tall African whose cheekbones were ridged with precise rows…

— William Gibson

More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we…

— Malcolm X

“The two guys who ran the place, always in Williamsburg hipster uniforms of short-sleeved shirts and neatly trimmed beards that looked stuck on with…

— warren ellis

“When we found each other, I was very flabbergasted by his appearance. This is an American? I thought. And also, This is a Jew?…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“himself standing before one of the most decorated and powerful generals in the world. The black chair turned slowly as the large man in…

— Leanne Davis

“The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity,…

— Jeff Shaara

“He was dressed, as I supposed befitted a warlock, in black—long pants, large boots, and a long-sleeved, billowy shirt that reminded me of Jerry…

— H.P. Mallory

“The Egyptians always seem to have had some idea that they were connected racially with the inhabitants of the Land of Punt or Puenet,…

— Leonard William King

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially…

— Carleton S. Coon

“He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an…

— Wallace Stegner