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― Laila Ibrahim , Golden Poppies (Freedman/Johnson, #3)
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3 " You cannot change that man, but you can learn the truth about the world and decide what kind of person you want to be. "
4 " It was strange how one choice could change the course of your entire life. "
5 " Your mother is a precious soul and the earth will be diminished without her—though heaven will be rewarded with another angel. "
6 " Mattie’s funeral was held at the AME, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Waiting for the service to begin, Sadie was acutely aware that there were only a handful of White people in the sanctuary. She’d never been outnumbered by people of another race. "
7 " Changes for the better would come from those who cared enough to make them happen. "
8 " But women understand the importance of a legitimate family. It is time to vote out men who do not serve our interests. "
9 " Women roar their first babies into the world. It’s God’s way of announcing that you’ve become a mama. "
10 " Jordan, when you first born, you cry and the folks around you have smiles on they faces. If you live you life right, when you die you have a smile on you face and the folks surroundin’ you have tears in they eyes. "
11 " There is throughout the whole United States this caste prejudice which is unknown in any other part of the civilized world. It differs only in degree North, East, South or West. If they do not lynch the negro in some of the States, they refuse him accommodations equal to those of other travelers; try to freeze them out at the public schools; give him no adequate political representation; and refuse to employ him in any other than the most menial capacities. It is almost as great a cruelty to educate youths in the public and industrial schools of this country and then shut the doors of the factories, mercantile establishments and trade unions in their faces because they are black, as it is to deny them trial by jury and lynch them. In one case you kill the body, and in the other you murder all the higher aspirations which distinguish man from brute creatures. America has much to learn before she can be the justice-loving, Christian progressive nation that she deludes herself into thinking she now is. "
12 " My mother used to say: ‘Women roar their first babies into the world. It’s God’s way of announcing that you’ve become a mama. "
13 " to in Richmond. Tessie, an orphan who had been deemed contraband in the Civil War, had a bright spirit and confidence that belied her traumatic past. Many of Jordan’s former students had struggled, "
14 " Our people are trampled and then blamed for lying on the ground. "
15 " I desperately want to believe that the ugliness of the past is behind us. That we have moved past doubting we can be one nation with liberties equally given. "
16 " How shall we make progress if we are only limited to the present? "
17 " Yes, he is. A nice man passing for White,” Jordan chastised. “Do you know how dangerous it is to play with that? He cannot move between the two worlds without consequences. You would be wise to stay away from his mess. "
18 " This pain is the cost for real love . . . and it is well worth the price, "
19 " She reminded herself to be grateful for the opportunity to earn some money rather than bitter at the need to be working. "
20 " Our Lord is jus’ like a mama. He wanting what’s best for His children but not always able to make it so. "
