Ruth's Journey Quotes

“Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave”
― Donald McCaig, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

“Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The bigger what bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave”
― Donald McCaig, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

“Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.”
― Donald McCaig, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

“Mammies gots to see and Mammies gots to know. We don’t know, we can’t do, and Mammies got to do. We can’t hold with no foolishness.”
― Donald McCaig, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind