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L’adoration, la piété, la crainte révérencielle de Dieu, voilà ce que ma mère attendait de moi, de sa lettrée de fille ; atteindre le summum de la dévotion, devenir une Rabia al Adawiya, l’ascète des ascètes, la parfaite des parfaites,
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“It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.”
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― Passing
“It’s easy for a Negro to ‘pass’ for white. But I don’t think it would be so simple for a white person to ‘pass’ for colored.”
― Passing
― Passing
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