You dont know how aworker feels, said Sugar. He was
on his way now to theWargate plant, where he was a machinist on the graveyard
shift.
Brewster, Will you letme tell you something you
already know? Im scrubbingfloors in the waiting-room and the mens toilet at the
railwaystation. She nodded toward the arm-folded and wearily back-tilted
salesman.
Pat had alwaysbeen a comely girl but peering and
withdrawn.
May I put it to you, Elizabeth, that you are being
a horrid littlegirl?
Im scrubbingfloors in the waiting-room and the mens
toilet at the railwaystation. She was a great lady in her assumptions; shewas a poor
child in her trusting heart.
Why risk thehumiliations weve been talking about
tonight?
May I put it to you, Elizabeth, that you are being
a horrid littlegirl?
Well, maybe they are, but think of beaver-dams and,
uh, war-bonnets. But Neil wasdiscovering that unconscious cruelty can be very
effective.
And who do you suppose built ourplantation
houses?
Really he didnt, said Ash, like a
schoolmaster.
Oh, gee, I guess we still do have to go on with
this race-business and all the talk, talk.
Can you beat that for a low human motive on my
part?
Winthrop was glad to see a male visitor who might
know somethingabout electricity. Its too complex forcountry-folks like Vestal and
me. I think you can jew him down five dollars on theprice.
Ive got to get out of this African world. If you
need a refuge, at least verbal, Mr. He heard of colored judges, surgeons, war
correspondents for theNegro press. Vestal protested, A fine, ribald barroom louse
you got to be inthis womans war, Pat!
None ofthese summer places will take in colored
folks. I think you can jew him down five dollars on theprice.
But Neil wasdiscovering that unconscious cruelty
can be very effective.
Look at the Indian pickaninnies, or whatever they
call em.
Have you any favorite ham that you talk
to?
Lots of white people think were suspicious and
hardto get acquainted with.