Nella Larsen Quotes (5 Quotes)

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place.

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chances in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it again.

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.