Wild Rain Quotes

“Society thinks a woman should marry.” “Good thing I don’t live by what society thinks. Otherwise, I’d’ve married the lecherous old snake my grandfather tried to shackle me to when I was eighteen. Probably be out of the penitentiary by now though.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“The 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott vs Sanford continued to influence judiciary thinking, and he doubted its ramifications would be banished in his lifetime, if ever.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“I’m a carpenter by trade and frankly, my father’s paper is not very successful. He’s determined to keep at it, but sundown papers can be difficult to keep afloat.” He saw Lee’s confusion and explained as he had to Spring. “Sundowns are newspapers worked on after the editor gets home from his day job.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“He and the doctor spent the next hour talking about everything from Colton growing up in the Territory, to his training at Howard Medical School under Dr. Alexander T. Augusta, the famous Colored Civil War surgeon.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“Do all the people here feel as you do about the Indians?” “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. Anything else?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“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. Chief Black Kettle and his people had already signed for peace.” “The newspapers at home never tell that side of the story.” “Maybe they should.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“You may want to. Ask yourself, do you want Spring because you love her or because of her potential to breed?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“Suppose she was unable to have children. Would you be so at sixes and sevens over that?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“When it became certain that Master McCray was going broke, he wanted to sell you, but I begged him not to sell us separately. I took on work in his fields hoping to help increase his profits. Fannie volunteered to be auctioned off if it meant you and I could stay together.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“Although the law may never reflect it, we are not less in any way, and I refuse to believe that I am simply because others do.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain

“I don’t have the desire nor the patience to argue laws that only one race has to abide by.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Wild Rain