"There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established."

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I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

— Charlaine Harris