Passing quotes - identity Flashcards
Clare has “no alleigance
beyond her own immediate desire”
“foolish desire to return for a moment
to the life which she had left behind her”
“it wasn’t that she was
ashamed of being a Negro.. it was the idea of being ejected”
“they were
Negro eyes!”
“great goodness!
Two of them!” (Gertrude and Clare)
“had Fred ever regretted his marriage because of
Gertrude’s race? Had Gertrude?”
Clare is a
“deserter”
“Gertrude launched into the story of how
he was no longer a Negro, or a Christian, but had become a Jew”
“ridiculing of her
race by an outsider”
Irene says “I’d hate
to be her”
Clare “failed to take up
the defence of the race to which she belonged”
“Clare Kendry cared nothing
for the race. she only belonged to it”
“You ought not to come up here,
ought not to run the risk of knowing Negroes”
“Irene wished, for the first time in her life,
that she had not been born a Negro”
“she belonged …
she was an American. She grew from this soil and would not be uprooted”
