Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting a...nd attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and ti...red and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in medieval dress distinguished the child from the adult. In the seventeenth century, however, the child, or at least the ...child of quality, whether noble or middle-class, ceased to be dressed like the grown-up. This is the essential point: henceforth he had an outfit reserved for his age group, which set him apart from the adults. These can be seen from the first glance at any of the numerous child portraits painted at the beginning of the seventeenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-up<...br />daughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to wha...t? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up--you think! I'll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, try...ing to look tough!... You scum!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought... to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone: "At least there's no room to grow up any more here."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »