Jessie Redmon Fauset Quotes

• 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.

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  Humorous, Men, America

  Jessie Redmon Fauset, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (1933). “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.

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  Life, Change, Thinking

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (1924). “There is Confusion”, p.267, UPNE

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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.

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  Dream, Children, Men

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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.

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  Moving, Flying, Way

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Country, Integrity, Paris

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• Biology transcends society.

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  Biology

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  First Impression, Sound, Firsts

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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