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My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond…

2013-03-18

I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.

Walter White, “Why I Remain a Negro,” The Saturday Review of Literature, October 11, 1947: 13

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