"Nigger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... though neither the most startling nor seductive, of this batch is Segonzac. Like all the best things in nature, he matures slowly and gets a little riper every day; so, as he is already a thoroughly good painter, like the nigger of Saint-Cyr he has but to continue. Before nature, or rather cultivation, with its chocolate ploughed fields and bright green trees, as before the sumptuous splendours of a naked body, his reaction is manifestly, ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell
... "Parson, you folks are swells, ain't you? The real thing, I mean, you and Madame? Even the yellow nigger's ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... "That durned nigger," exclaimed Seth, "is allers shirking his work. I told him he warn't to come with us this mornin', and here he is toting arter us with some slick excuse or other. Hullo, you ugly cuss!" he added, hailing the darkey, who was running after the party and had now ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... to make a figure pathetic, who is strangled by a nigger," answered Hall. "Now if Desdemona had been a negress Shakespeare would ...
— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring
... long afore the news had spread the country over, And miners come a-flockin' in like honey-bees to clover; It kind uv did 'em good, they said, to feast their hungry eyes on That picture uv Our Lady in the camp uv Blue Horizon. But one mean cuss from Nigger Crick passed criticisms on 'er,— Leastwise we overheerd him call her Pettibone's madonner, The which we did not take to be respectful to a lady, So we hung him in a quiet spot that wuz cool 'nd dry 'nd shady; Which same might not have been good law, but it wuz the right ...
— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field
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