This Child's Gonna Live Quotes

“Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”
― Sarah E. Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

“And the air was rent with cries of the living glaring at the rotted bones and rags of their kin and friends just a-swingin in the winds circling about the land, and pulling the bones and rags--some crumbling and dry, some still squirming with the worms eating away at them--from those once mighty roots, and putting them back in the gaping holes.”
― Sarah E Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”
― Sarah E Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

“Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on the ground. And they carried them back to Tangierneck for a decent funeral. Then laid them to rest in Cleveland's Field. All Ol Jefferson could say was, "Did him the same way they did Bard Tom. Same way they did his father.”
― Sarah E Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

“All of sudden it hit Mariah like a bolt of thunder that it was Bannie's death why they got beat. It was the land...the land! She looked to Jacob - to his papa. Both of them looking like lightning just struck.”
― Sarah E Wright, This Child's Gonna Live