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"Light is white: dark is black."
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Peter Abrahams"You are Colored. There are three kinds of people: white people, Colored people, and black people. The white people come first, then the Colored people, then the black people. Lee asks “Why?” but Aunt’s answer is, “Because it is so."
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.
"Light is white: dark is black."
"You write in English and already you are touching things that should not be mentioned."
"An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma."
"All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back."
"It seemed to me there was no sense in life. Things happened and no one seemed to know why."
"He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her."