Being a Negro woman, she had more than her share of handicaps to keep the daily, meaningful world in which the majority of people lived from her; and, knowing that such a world was not for her, she gave it up. But, having once surrendered the things of this world, she had perforce to keep it from her. She had created a world in which to live and whenever the world before her eyes intruded into her created world, she drove it out with all of the savage vehemence of one who felt that life itself was endangered.
