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“Enemies must have common ground. Else, they are not enemies but strangers.”
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“I am weary with whiteness. To rule, to be civilized and chaste; you do not know what weariness it is. My woman yearns toward me in hunger, I am spent. All the world waves in darkling circles about my white uprightness, I am spent.”
― Holiday
― Holiday
“Smiles, smiles—what a curse smiles seemed to him! There was so much laughter in the house. But when they looked at him, it became a smile. Never, never did they laugh with him. Surely, then, he too must learn to smile. Rigid as ever, he turned on his back. And through his scarce-started tears, he looked up at the blurred electric lamp. And then he lay there, his mouth trembled and he learned to smile. It was an evil moment.”
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“Ah wants you always, John. Fo' I fear. I fear."
He understood. He lifted his hand a little to stroke hers.
"But Mammy, ef the cabin 'n' the swamp is chokin' me?"
"Chokin's our life." Her voice is harsh.”
― Holiday
He understood. He lifted his hand a little to stroke hers.
"But Mammy, ef the cabin 'n' the swamp is chokin' me?"
"Chokin's our life." Her voice is harsh.”
― Holiday
“She will come in on you, noisy with furs and clinking jewels, and her face stolid under frantic rouge. She will rattle her bag open ere the tall disarray of her body has settled at the table, and with talonous hand rummage a cigarette from the bag's mess of bills, cosmetics, letters, keys, ashes and bric-à-brac. She will thrust her voice stridentbright against the dull dark racket of the brokers in the café; and reveal in raillery the most recent prank of her too vagrant fortune.”
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“Sleep is a sure peace whose balm lies swiftly near and casts its magic even upon the day.”
― Holiday
― Holiday
“All the world's color: and I must hold my pride against the world. Pride is white. History is white. The Christ is white. Honor is white, and birthright. All else . . color.”
― Holiday
― Holiday
“There's a whole lot of things you don't know about niggers. And God forbid you should! There's a whole lot of things you don't know about white girls . . about yourself, Virginia. And God forbid you should! That's what we men are here for.”
― Holiday
― Holiday
