“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.” ThinkingLifeSometimesMatterChangeBornActingChangedAfrican AmericanNovelistsGearsEssayistsChanged Life Book:There is Confusion Source: There is Confusion
“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.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesSeemsLostWishFeltGrowthMy OwnKnownIntegrityRacismConsciousParisSimplestSurroundings Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset
