Who Said The Blacker The Berry The Sweeter The Juice?

Who Said The Blacker The Berry The Sweeter The Juice? Wallace Thurman’s first novel, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929) takes its title from an old folk saying, “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.” It is an autobiographical satire whose neurotic, dark-skinned protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan, internalizes biases against