Colored People Quotes

“found myself wishing, too, that Maggie could have seen my mother when she was young and Mama and I would go to a funeral and she’d stand up to read the dead person’s eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill that thing that had made you laugh. She remembered the way you had hoped to”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr., Colored People