Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or school:
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious applicationwhy, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
—Howard Nemerov (19201991)
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal.... No, I do not weep at the worldI am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (19071960)
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