“[...] Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.”

"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 258
Cloud Atlas (2004), Sloosha's Crossin' an' Evrythin' After

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