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“What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking."
"Uncle Tom?"
"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.”
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"Uncle Tom?"
"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.”
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“The Uncle Tom, the grinning nigger, the house nigger who is to blame for her debased place in this world. Pompey gave them a blueprint for colored folk. How they acted. How they pleased white folks. How eager they would be for a piece of the dream that they would do anything for massa.”
― The Intuitionist
― The Intuitionist
“The Uncle Tom or Auntie Tom will coon for the white man, they'll tell the blacks to stay in their lane, stay in their place and shut up and play or sing because the coon has sold its soul to that bigoted white man who still believes he has a stranglehold on the black race.”
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“The Uncle Tom or Auntie Tom will coon for the white man, they'll tell the blacks to stay in their lane, stay in their place and shut up and play or sing because the coon has sold its soul to that bigoted white man who still believes they have a stranglehold on the black race.”
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“The Uncle Tom or Auntie Tom will coon for the white man, they'll tell the blacks to stay in their lane, stay in their place and shut up and play or sing because the coon has sold its soul to that bigoted white man who still believes he has a stranglehold on the black race.”
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“Speak no ill of the successful black male sellout, for he has achieved the goal of the community that has produced him: he has “made it,â€� used his skills to attain the status that would be denied him, earned entry at the door of the big house of prosperity. His only flaw is that he agreed to leave the community, its hopes, customs, aspirations, on the porch behind him. It is a matter of expedience as much as morality.”
― Pym
― Pym

“Harriet Beecher Stowe did not write Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Tom, Aunt Chloe, or any black people to read. Her contemporary readership was white people, those who needed, wanted, or could relish the romance.”
― The Origin of Others
― The Origin of Others
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