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Black Is My Favorite Color Summary & Study Guide Description
Black Is My Favorite Color Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Black Is My Favorite Color Plot Summary
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Charity Quietness
"Black Is My Favorite Color" starts out with a description by Nat Lime, the narrator, of his cleaning lady, Charity Quietness, who eats her lunch by herself in the bathroom in Nat's Harlem apartment. Although Nat, a forty-four year old Jewish bachelor, has invited Charity to eat lunch with him in the past, she insists on eating in the bathroom. Nat says that this is his fate with colored people, a term he uses through the story. Nat explains that, despite this fate, black is his favorite color and that he is drawn to colored people. He talks about the liquor store that he runs in Harlem and claims that, although he has tried several times to show his affection for black people, he has not had any reciprocity.
Nat's Childhood
Nat uses the current situation with Charity Quietness as a springboard to discuss his earliest memories of colored people. The...
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