Night Flyer Quotes

“The texts that come down to us from eager listeners of Tubman’s tales are complicated narratives produced out of this context of give-and-take in which the teller and the told had different desires.”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“she confronted the particularly grave danger of sexualized bodily harm.”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“luminous pragmatism.[20]”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“Thomas Garrett pressed Harriet on an occasion when she had come to visit, saying God told her Garrett had money for her next rescue. He asked whether “God never deceived her?” because he had received no such funds. Tubman proclaimed, “No!” And according to Garrett, the mystery cash soon arrived.[”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“Steeped in a teeming religious surround, the young and astute Minty Ross seems to have been poking a stick into this same philosophical thicket. Minty’s first question—“Why should such things be?”—probed the rationale for slavery, functioning as a cosmological inquiry into the genesis and development of human relations of bondage. “Would there be deliverance?,” her second question, asked whether the infraction of slavery was significant enough, and whether her people were precious enough, for God to take action.”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“Ursula Goodenough has suggested that there is a singular pair of questions “fundamental to human concern.” These queries probe “How Things Are and Which Things Matter.” The first question, Goodenough says, is an inquiry into cosmology, while the second is an exploration of morality.”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

“the safest place to be is in the will of God.”[9]”
― Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People