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Jessie Redmon Fauset, born on April 27, 1882 and died on April 30, 1961, was an outstanding editor. She played a significant role in the literary world and made great contributions to the development of African American literature.

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Comedy: American Style

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The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of America...

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Depression Refocusing Change Of Scene

Book:There is Confusion

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“She needed the stimulus of an occupation which would take her out of herself.”

Motivation Self Centeredness Refocusing

Book:There is Confusion

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“Biology transcends society.”

Biology

Book:The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life

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“To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.”

Men America Enjoy Racism Humorous Philosopher All Time Sensitive Daring Daring Greatly

Book:Comedy, American Style

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“Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.”

Knows Way Kind Moving Flying Aviation Poetry Is Finest Using Words

Book:Comedy: American Style

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“Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.”

Thinking Life Sometimes Matter Change Born Acting Changed African American Novelists Gears Essayists Changed Life

Book:There is Confusion

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“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

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“The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.”

Firsts Sound Impression Lasting Aphorism First Impression

Book:Comedy: American Style

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“The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.”

Men Way Feels Children Dream Color Complexes Sooner Or Later

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

About the Author

Born: April 27, 1882
Died: April 30, 1961
Known for: Editor
Quotes: 9

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