We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble..

These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history..

We ain't never gonna lose this land..

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't..

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried ….

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken dur….

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we ma….

There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are. You have to demand resp….

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the sam….

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was ….

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and ….

I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in ….

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!.