One quote was good to me "We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and Indian and African, and, all in all, we men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ... Everyone loves music, and music such as the blues, has been around for centuries and is what Du calls "Sorrow Songs". ... This paragraph a...

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In Jane Eyre it shows Bertha Mason as "beast or human it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered in clothing dark grizzled hair". ... These fallen white people were called "white cockroaches" or "white niggers" black people used these terms as an insult towards white people to show they were different. ...

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