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Nella Larsen: It was ....

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It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race as well. It was brutality, and undeserved.

Source: Passing, 1929.
-- Nella Larsen, ( 1891-1964), US novelist; Her novels portray female characters of great psychological complexity; first African American woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.


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