beauty

catnip

eloquence

racism

refinement

snob

snobbery

snobbishness

sophistication

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

screenwriter

photographer

intellectual movement

Harlem Renaissance

novelist

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Letters

is an animal that remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

..with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend... if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. Carl Van Vechten

is the friend of man not because he must be so, but because it pleases him to.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. Carl Van Vechten

is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

is when a minority group is denied the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

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Carl Van Vechten