How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.[Part].Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Now he understood what it was she had brought into the tent with her […] Maybe in a thousand or two thousand years in America, he thought. But not now! Not now! He cried, not loud, in a voice of amazement, pity, and outrage: "You're a nigger!" (6.92)
Isaac realizes that the young woman who comes to the tent is part black, and that the child she's borne to Roth is of mixed race. He's outraged because he knows that it will take generations for people to accept this. Faulkner once said that he didn't think miscegenation was wrong, but it was a mistake, because it brought suffering on the child. This is kind of Isaac's view in this scene.
Quote #11
[Stevens] was not surprised. He had known Hamp Worsham all his life, though he had never seen the old Negress before. But even if he had, he still would not have been surprised. They were like that. You could know two of them for years; they might even have worked for you for years, bearing different names. Then suddenly you learn by pure chance that they are brothers or sisters. (7.2.8)
Stevens is voicing yet another stereotype: that all African Americans belong to the same big family. They're individuals, but part of an intimidating whole.