W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born
“Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture — a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, book The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
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W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk
for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born