Black resilience

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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

William Faulkner

Faulkner on black Americans.

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Topic

Black resilience Race relations

Author

William Faulkner

Source

The Bear

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.