Conan battles a war party of Picts in "the Black Stranger" by Robert E. Howard ~ art by Barry Windsor Smith[/caption]“You said I was a barbarian,” he said harshly, “and that is true, Crom be thanked. If youhad had men of the outlands guarding you instead of soft-gutted civilized weaklings, you would not be the slave of a black pig this night. I am Conan, a Cimmerian, and I live bythe sword’s edge. But I am not such a dog as to leave a white woman in the clutches of a black man; and though your kind call me a robber, I never forced a woman against her consent. Customs differ in various countries, but if a man is strong enough, he can enforcea few of his native customs anywhere. And no man ever called me a weakling!”
“If you were old and ugly as the devil’s pet vulture, I’d take you away from Bajujh simply because of the color of your hide.”
But you are young and beautiful, and I have looked at black sluts until I am sick at the guts.
- The Vale of Lost Women
"I have but to wait until dark, climb down the other side of this crag and melt into the forest. I can crawl through the line the Picts have thrown around this hill, and return to the fort to report you all slain by the savages—which will shortly be truth!’ Zarono and Strom stared at each other in pallid silence. ‘But I’m not going to do that!’ Conan roared. 'Not because I have any love for you dogs, but because a white man doesn’t leave white men, even his enemies, to be butchered by Picts.’ "
- The Black Stranger
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