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Not every marriage should be celebrated, but all weddings seemed to be.
“It nice to know life gonna keep going.” Her head rolled from side to side. “Your babies gonna see things I don’ even know how to dream about.”
“The few times I’ve seen them they treat me just fine, but in my experience the nice ones can be the most dangerous.”
“Then the prejudices of the past should not dictate your future,” Sadie declared. “You believe so? Truly?” Naomi asked. “I do,” Sadie replied. “How shall we make progress if we are only limited to the present?”
“He had a passionate hatred for our family. I was naïve enough to believe that the words of the constitution—the Fifteenth Amendment—were a shield against his loathing.”
It was outrageous and insulting that California still had the anti-miscegenation laws that Illinois had already overturned. This supposedly more liberal environment seemed to have a mixture of progressive and oppressive laws when it came to her race.
“I wish the reforms could simply be done with. Why must each be fought for over and over and over again?”
“The men have made a mess of our nation. None can argue with that fact. It is our turn to bring the passion and care of a mother’s touch to our country. We will have a cleansing effect that will make our state great.”
“You set your fear right next to your hope until you know which one is the truth.”
The plight of Negroes could not be publicized for the tarnish it would add to the shining nation on a hill.
“There is nothing to be said. Her sentiments are the truth of this world. Our people are trampled and then blamed for lying on the ground.”
