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Nella Larsen’s Passing opens with the protagonist Irene...
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Explanation of the famous quotes in Passing, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
- Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan
- 1929
- “The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”
- “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.”
- “It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.” ― Nella Larsen, Passing.
- “I'm not such an idiot that I don't realize that if a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it again.”
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