The Record Keeper Quotes

“And why do you think the Kongo go dark skin?" she asked. She answered her own questions, pointing a convinced finger into the air. "This skin is our toil." She slapped the table beneath her. "We got this skin working this earth. We put our whole head in the dirt. Our whole body. We got it all over, real bad, see?" She held up her forearm for my observation. "We been bent to toil so long; it be a fence, and we 'bout can't get out.”
― Agnes Gomillion, The Record Keeper

“I sang a song as I sprang from the womb- which is not unusual. After nine months many Kongos come like baby birds- crying and craning.”
― Agnes Gomillion, The Record Keeper