关于黑人女性的生活状况,赫斯顿有过描述,“白人把包袱扔下,叫黑人捡起来,黑人捡了,因为他不得不这样做,但是他并不背着它走,他递给他家里的女人。黑人妇女是世上的骡子”。 Heston described the living conditions of black women, “the white man dropped the burden, the black man picked it up, the black man picked it up because he had to do it, but he did not carry it, and he handed it The woman in his home. Black women are mules in the world. ”