BENEATHA How can something that’s natural be eccentric? GEORGE That’s what being eccentric means—being natural. Get dressed. BENEATHA I don’t like that, George. RUTH Why must you and your brother make an argument out of everything people say? BENEATHA Because I hate assimilationist Negroes! RUTH Will somebody please tell me what assimila-who ever means! GEORGE Oh, it’s just a college girl’s way of calling people Uncle Toms—but that isn’t what it means at all. RUTH Well, what does it mean? BENEATHA (Cutting GEORGE off and staring at him as she replies to RUTH) It means someone who is willing to
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