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“Racial progress in America has never come quickly or easily.”
― Steve Luxenberg

“Under the banner of keeping the races apart, much of white America stood silent as black Americans suffered beatings, assaults, and murders.”
― Steve Luxenberg, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

“Without really trying, I have become a collector of other families' secrets. Whenever I tell someone about my detective work, the first question is invariably something like this: 'Can you tell me the secret?' Sure, I say. The next question often is: 'Want to hear my family's secret?”
― Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

“Secrets, I've discovered, have a way of working free of their keepers.”
― Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

“But what do I believe?”
― Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

“Stories rarely begin at the beginning, but every storyteller has to begin somewhere, and Anna chooses to start this story with shame.”
― Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret