“It’s also interesting because I’m actually black, but you assumed otherwise,” said Smooth, so patiently. “And this is the sort of awkwardness we can look forward to at Starbucks across America.”
Without knowing anything else but this….this is where you get into conversations about privilege. Light skinned and biracial people have an additional privilege and though it doesn’t take away our race, you can’t pretend like it’s not logical to assume certain things when you know damn well you don’t have it as bad as others.
He was the kind of man—powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led…In [whose] presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly…a man in his prime we see, with a quiet confidence and an unexpressed, hidden force. —Arthur Miller, on John Proctor
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He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct…[he] has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud. —Arthur Miller, on John Proctor
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"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow!" —John Proctor [Act 2]
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From The Crucible, by Arthur Miller (Penguin Books edition)