"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions." --Zora Neal Hurston, in a letter to Countee Cullen
The link for #9 on the Study Guide:
PDF of LA Times archive article
It's from the LA Times
If reading dialect is confusing, listen to the audio until you are more accustomed to reading it. Make sure it's the one Ruby Dee reads; it's wonderful. Her version might be on YouTube chapter by chapter, but that's probably a copywrite violation, so...
(Trying to figure out access to this article!)