How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Realizing the terrible thing that had happened to his daughter made him sweat, for there were seven mulatto children on his land. (6.8)
Yeah, Vera Louise's dad puts the hypocrite in hypocritical. He's scandalized that his baby girl not only gets pregnant out of wedlock, but with a black man, yet he's totally had affairs of his own with several different black women. You know, that he enslaves. So we're guessing they didn't have much of a choice in the matter? So disgusting, so infuriating.
Quote #11
He had always thought there was only one kind—True Belle's kind. Black and nothing. Like Henry LesTroy. Like the filthy woman snoring on the cot. But there was another kind—like himself. (6.27)
Golden Gray not only has a cool name, but he also has a newly minted identity complex. He thought he was white for his entire life, and now, with the understanding that he has a black father, he's thrown for a loop. Not only does he not know who he is, he's no longer clear on the distinction between black and white. Welcome to the real world, Golden—it's complicated.
Quote #12
"I know what you came for. To see how black I was. You thought you was white, didn't you? She probably let you think it. Hoped you'd think it. And I swear I'd think it too." (7.17)
Not surprisingly, Hunter's Hunter isn't totally tickled by the idea of having a son that the mother hid from him. But then again, Vera Louise's father did force her to go into hiding.