“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”
Allan Dare Pearce“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April“Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.”
Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April