Pauline Hopkins - Contending forces (1900)

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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

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