Jam on the Vine Quotes

“Facts were simple: most Negro men lived till somebody saw fit to kill them. One day his time would come too; the why and the how of it didn’t matter.”
― LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine: A Novel

“Each and every protest is a wave that moves us beyond the stagnant waters of servitude and oppression toward the shores of self-respect.” Her”
― LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine: A Novel

“Death was slamming doors, creaking on bone floors, displeased that it had to live, if only for a little while, in such a hellhole.”
― LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine

“The story of Ivoe's family was found in the beads Momma held while praying, Papa's sledge and file and the black dust his shoes carried in at the end of the day.”
― LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine