If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

Quote by Jean Toomer

Her mother was a mulatto slave. S. There he formally joined the Quakers and began to withdraw from society.

Jean Toomer (December 26 1894 – March 30 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.