NEGRO in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 She was white, and she tempted a Negro.
2 Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man.
3 A small boy clutching a Negro woman's hand walked toward us.
4 Tom was a black-velvet Negro, not shiny, but soft black velvet.
5 Maycomb's Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin.
6 Sometimes he would skip happily, and the Negro woman tugged his hand to make him stop.
7 He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.
8 There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance.
9 That's what I thought," said Jem, "but around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.
10 A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked.
11 He seemed to be a respectable Negro, and a respectable Negro would never go up into somebody's yard of his own volition.
12 They turned off the highway, rode slowly by the dump and past the Ewell residence, down the narrow lane to the Negro cabins.
13 Calpurnia's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around: standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman.
14 Mrs. Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall.
15 And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's.
16 Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley loose and after us; insects splashing against the screen were Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces; the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive.