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

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

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

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

- Mildred D. Taylor

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

- 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.

- 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 …

- Mildred D. Taylor

We ain't never gonna lose this land.

- Mildred D. Taylor