Rebel Quotes

“Pirate thoughts.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Love with the right person makes us stronger, not weaker.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Being in New Orleans with its long history of ambitious women of color like Julianna had shown her that she didn't need the societal stamp of a husband to achiee her goals. ... But would Cole and Lenny succeed without her being Cole's wife?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“And that's what you aspire to? Being a force to reckon with?" "yes, and to teach girls to aspire to be the same.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“I wonder if the country will ever heal from the war?" ... "It won't be anytime soon. Maybe not even in our lifetimes.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“No two families are alike," he said.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“...I enjoyed our times together, but it was a business arrangement, nothing more." Val realized how naive she was. Shen never considered a man's arrangement with a mistress might be viewed so dispassionately...”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don’t. They own the land now and it’s made them rich. They don’t care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Someone has to champion us if the government won’t. During the Draft Riots back home, mobs attacked members of the race all over the city. They even burned down a Colored orphanage. Those who hate us have no shame, and if dragging them from their houses teaches them a lesson, I’m all for dragging them out every night until they learn.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn’t be wherever he was taken.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“working sugar was by far the most brutal work a slave could be assigned. Most died by the age of twenty-five from infections caused by the serrated leaves, snakebite from the venomous snakes lurking in the fields, and heat exhaustion from having to stir the cane down to syrup in vats heated underneath by flames”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Never mind then. Do what’s best for her. Not you. But if you need me to ride north, let me know.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“So, having been dismissed by his mistress while pining for a woman who belonged to another, he rode out of the city to the abandoned plantation his good friend Hugh had purchased, and hoped he had some cognac on hand.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“the Great Exodus of 1879. Fifteen Black men were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1870 to 1887, and two men of the race served in the U.S. Senate: Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, both from the state of Mississippi. Such”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“America’s unfinished revolution,” and I heartily agree. The years 1863–1877 held such promise, not only for the newly freed but for the nation as well, only to have the politicians set the”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“You will lose a love, reject a love, find a love.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Passion could lead to a place you'll regret.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel