I’m more like Harriett—not wanting to be a servant at the mercies of white people for ever.... I want to do something for myself, by myself.... Free.... I want a house to live in, too, when I’m older—like Tempy’s and Mr. Siles’s. . . . But I wouldn’t want to be like Tempy’s friends—or her husband, dull and colorless, putting all his money away in a white bank, ashamed of colored people.”
