Anatole Broyard
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Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 - October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for the New York Times. He is notable for denying his African ancestry by passing as white.
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- The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
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