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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

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The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us . . . It is our emotional salvation.

Source: The Gift of Laughter, The New Negro, 1925.
-- Jessie Redmon Fauset, (Apr 27 1882-1961), US poet, novelist; She was a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of The Crisis; wrote four novels, including There Is Confusion.


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