"It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction."

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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

— Ben Hecht