Dust Tracks on a Road (34 page)

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Authors: Zora Neale Hurston

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[Hurston's footnote.] The word Nigger used in this sense does not mean race. It means a weak, contemptible person of any race.

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That is a Negro saying that means “Don't be too ambitious. You are a Negro and they are not meant to have but so much.”

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The word Nigger used in this sense does not mean race. It means a weak. contemptible person of any race.

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A coudar is a fresh-water terrapin.

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The “Love Feast” or “Experience Meeting” is a meeting held either the Friday night or the Sunday morning before Communion Since no one is supposed to take Communion unless he or she is in harmony with all other members, there are great protestations of love and friendship. It is an opportunity to re-affirm faith plus anything the imagination might dictate.

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