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Nola Brown
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“In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes… in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,-one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars.”
— Oct 25, 2025 06:19PM
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Nola Brown
is on page 108 of 288
“…the longing of black men must have respect: the rich and bitter depth of their experience, the unknown treasures of their inner life…And to themselves in these the days that try their souls, the chance to soar in the dim blue air above the smoke is to their finer spirits boon and guerdon for what they lose on earth by being black.
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.”
— Sep 01, 2025 09:23AM
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.”
Nola Brown
is on page 86 of 288
I’m getting emotional being able to read him talk about the dignity and beauty of education being sacrificed at the altar of industry and economy.
— Aug 31, 2025 05:53PM
Nola Brown
is on page 76 of 288
“How many heartfulls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat?”
— Aug 31, 2025 12:24PM
