Artistic freedom, intellectual property rights and unsympathizing editors were the topics that instantly struck every chord in the room, furthering inclusivity in the conversation.
Only here and there a man rises up in whom the race feeling is not destroyed; and such a man, being so different from those around him, becomes a target of the assaults of his own people and of the unsympathizing strangers among whom he dwells; and he must consider himself fortunate if he does not go down to a premature grave, hastened thither by sheer grief and disappointment.(223) Educated in his own environment, however, the African's sentiments and instincts will be more properly shaped, and he will be more proud to belong to the Negro race, which he will uplift and advance to greater heights.
who returns Florence after she has been lost' (33), suggests that Ermath needs to refresh her memory of Dombey and Son; Barchester Towers is not the first of the Barchester novels (102); the railway engine is not 'an instrument of suicide for failed financiers' in The Way We Live Now (Melmotte takes poison) but in The Prime Minister (136); Lady Jane's disapproval of Becky Sharp cannot always be described as 'steadfast and unsympathizing' (203), though it certainly becomes so by the end of their relationship.