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 one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.
No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one. - Mildred D. Taylor
No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.
- Mildred D. Taylor
Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried … - Mildred D. Taylor
Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried …
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… - Mildred D. Taylor
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…
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… - Mildred D. Taylor
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…
We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble. - Mildred D. Taylor
We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.
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 … - Mildred D. Taylor
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 …
These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history. - Mildred D. Taylor
These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.
There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't. - Mildred D. Taylor
There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
We ain't never gonna lose this land. - Mildred D. Taylor
We ain't never gonna lose this land.
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