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being a Negro necessitated having a colored skin, but she did mind being too black.
insouciant
wasn’t much cream to skim off.
Their motto must be “Whiter and whiter every generation,” until the grandchildren of the blue veins could easily go over into the white race and become assimilated so that problems of race would plague them no more.
Literally the opp of blue rock
stereotyped and static.
Emma Lou had fully expected it to be either Hyacinth or Geranium.
Lol this being a very black name
She herself was black, but nevertheless she had come from a good family,
they would give free rein to their suppressed mirth.
Negroes must always be sober and serious in order to impress white people with their adaptability and non-difference in all salient characteristics save skin color.
scholastic grind
morose
chimera
What was that line in Cullen’s verse, “I run, but Time’s abreast with me”?
hegira
“pert”
languor,
Sob stuff,
island of flesh.
stolid
persiflage
garrulous
the mode of the day.
cicerone,
or are you just trying to settle the ills of the universe?”
what the white man does is right, and what the black man does is wrong, unless it is precedented by something a white man has done.
He loved to reminisce, when he found a good listener, and Emma Lou loved to listen when she found a good talker.
It is a platitude among sundry sects and individuals that as a person thinketh, so he is, but it was not within the power of Braxton’s mortal body to become the being his imagination sought to create.
duplicity.
bawdy
no matter how prejudiced one might be against unoriginality.
