"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.“


-W. E. B. Du Bois

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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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