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  1. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.
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  2. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future.
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  3. Margo Jefferson _ Ripping Off Black Music

    We sing more colored than the Africans," boasted John Lennon, and few Americans were inclined to dispute him.
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  4. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.
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  5. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.
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  6. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.
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  7. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You've acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensities have not been for you. Your explanation {not an untrue one,though not quite sufficient} is that you have let yourself be shaped by so many conventions, expectations, and requirements {institution's, people's}, by so much dread of disapproval, that the discipline of solitude-severe solitude-has been required to give you the sense of an independent selfhood. The intensities of friendship suit you better. Friendship's choreography is for multiple partners: for varied groups and surprisingly sustained duets.
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  8. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir

    Striving ardently to be what they were and were not. Behold the Race Flaneur: the bourgeois rebel who goes slumming, and finds not just adventure but the objective correlative for his secret despair.
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  9. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir

    Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?
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  10. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir

    Cyprian Clamorgan ends
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  11. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland

    - I've never been so sick of RACE in my life.Every group with its rights and grievances, its mathematically precise litany of what has been denied, what should have been granted long ago, what must be restored and redressed. Even everyday WASPS compete now. Because their sense of being dispossessed, displaced, bullied, has in an amazingly short time become as acute, as outraged, as righteous as that of the groups they managed and mangled for so long.- This is my dream. Eradicate them all. Then fix your hair, and put your hands in your muff as your heels go clip clip clip across the pavement.- May I help you, ma'am?- Thank your, sir, I've just murdered quite a few people and I need a taxi.
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  12. Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir

    Regularly denounce Caucasians, whose behavior toward us, and all dark-skinned people, proved they did not morally deserve their privilege. We
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