Amiable with Big Teeth Quotes

“The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.”
― Claude McKay, Amiable with Big Teeth

“And at last we Aframericans are breaking in, since we’re beginning to learn how to organize in a practical way. But we’ve hardly begun before the Communists and their friends start maneuvering to capture our organizations. What for? Not for our interest but for their interest. To control us for their purpose. When we resist them they try to put us on the spot, saying we believe in segregation. They use their superior white position to promote a lie against our vital interests and whitewash it to make it appear like truth. The Maxim Tasans of today are the carpet-baggers of yesterday. They mean us no good.”
― Claude McKay, Amiable with Big Teeth

“Newton appeared more nervously emphatic in his manner since Sunday when the Senegambians left him in his underwear and Delta had to hurry down to bring him another suit. Before his wife arrived the superintendent had removed the gag from his mouth and the experience had apparently made him more loquacious. He felt as if he had earned his medal as a hero of the cause. He talked unceasingly, agitating his hands.”
― Claude McKay, Amiable with Big Teeth