Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	October 7, 2016
ISBN13	9781539376422
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	126
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 7 mm · 176 g
Language	English

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