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Line 20: <p style="text-align:center;">''"Helga Crane, who had been born in this dirty, mad, hurrying city, had no home here. She had not even any friends here."'' '''''-Quicksand'''''</p><br> '''Chapter Seven-Eleven'''<br> Helga relocates to Harlem, on the advice and cooperation of Mrs. Hayes-Rore, where she becomes part of the Black middle-class community. ''NOTE Issues of economic class dominate in these chapters.'' After coloring the truth (hiding her biracial heritage), as Mrs. Hayes-Rore suggests, Helga enjoys residence in the home of Anne Grey. Anne Grey was a woman obsessed with the race problem and fed her obsession frequently. Money as Money was still not very important to Helga. However, Helga with her initial happiness at being finally in a place she could call home fades into feelings of shame and fear.<br>''NOTE Issues of economic class dominate in these chapters.''<br> <p style="text-align:center;">''"It was as if she was shut up, boxed up, with hundreds of her race, closed up with something in the racial character which had always been, to her, inexpliciable, alien. Why, she demanded in fierce rebellion should she be yoked to these despised black folk?"'' '''''-Quicksand'''''</p><br> '''Chapter Twelve-Sixteen'''<br>

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