Love... This bright feeling is sometimes fraught with anxiety and torment. But if a feeling is born between a man and a woman of different skin colors, then the misunderstanding and hostility of others are added to the torment of love.

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“...But he loves her. He wants to be with her. Perhaps it is precisely this inexperience that attracts him to her? Or perhaps it is that in her - both white and non-white - he sees an image of some kind of reconciliation? Or is the whole point that she looks like a white woman, but, like him, is forced to live in the Black Belt?.. He tried to imagine with what concepts he approaches life, to relations between people of different races Gladys... Poor little Gladys. He chose this woman, and he will bring her senses..." (R. Wright)