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Nora didn't want to settle for a magnolia & moonlight life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that...
...replies, 'I ain't stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...
...What is that band of nigger Communists headed by Joe Louis circulating a petition seeking to get a million names on it to deny me my seat in the Senate for? Because they know I'll take the floor and tear to shreds the arguments for the Communistic F.E.P.C.-one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever introduced...
...They talk about us treating the nigger bad in the South. Why, in Chicago 20 years ago, they killed more Negroes in one riot than we have killed in the South since Reconstruction. In Detroit three years ago, they killed 300 niggers. They said they killed 30, but I have the figures...
...material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room for a score of Conrad...