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I enjoyed this so much Themes like: passing, activism, the 60s and 70s movements, running away, family conflict, discovering sexuality
Lots of funny moments and even more serious ones
The novel asks the question: what does it mean to be black? What do ...more "
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.”
― Passing
― 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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