How we cite our quotes: (Entry. Paragraph)
Quote #10
I hired a Negro youth to come and help me clean up my parents' house so it would be spotless for the new owners. The youth knew me and had no reticence in talking since he was sure I was "one of them" so to speak. Both Negroes and whites have gained this strange certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. (38.2)
Maybe we're the only ones confused, but what does it mean to be "partly Negro," or "essentially Negro?" Seriously. We want to know. But that, friends, is a question that every reader of this book has to answer for him or herself. No easy answers here.