Pauline Hopkins Quotes

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It is an incontrovertible truth that there is no such thing as an unmixed black on the American continent.

Pauline Hopkins

Even today it is erroneously believed that all racial development among colored people has taken place since emancipation. It is impossible of belief for some, that little circles of educated men and women of color have existed since the Revolutionary War.

Pauline Hopkins

Sappho possessed a brilliant mind and resolute character. If she had been a religious devotee she would have been as devout and as fervid as a disciple of old. If a sinner, the queen of them all.

Pauline Hopkins

The one drop of black blood neutralized all her virtues, and she became, from the moment of exposure, an unclean thing.

Pauline Hopkins

No man can draw the dividing line between the two races, for they are both of one blood!

Pauline Hopkins

Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation.

Pauline Hopkins

Pauline Hopkins

Pauline Hopkins

Born: 1859

Died: August 13, 1930 (aged 71)

Bio: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes.

Known for:

Contending forces (1900)
Hagar's Daughter
The magazine novels of Pauline Hopkins

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