So Many Beginnings Quotes

“It’s difficult to let those who held the scripture hostage and warped it to justify enslavement and treachery stand as authorities on its meaning. I don’t mean to imply that there isn’t a true and certain meaning, but it will rarely be championed by the same people who distorted it in their favor.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“No one’s convinced me freedom needs earning. It’s owed, and I will have it, whether here or abroad.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“We hide light in the darkest place, and when others think embers extinguished, we know how to breathe them back to life.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“Joanna,” Mammy said, smiling despite the heaviness on their hearts. “I have a Meg and a Beth. I need my Jo, too. The whole world does. I hope you won’t change too much, ever. I hope you’ll pass through life’s gauntlet of trials with all your passion and fire intact. ‘We are all members of one body,’” Mammy quoted the Bible, “‘but with different purposes and gifts.’ Only you can accomplish yours.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“For you.” Meg silenced her at last. “It’s perfectly safe for you in Boston. You’ve no idea what it would be for her. And having received a valuable education yourself since coming to Roanoke, I trust you’ll forgive us that we could never take it on your authority that our fourteen-year-old Black child would be well cared for, as she’s accustomed to being.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“The March women did not rescue her. They did not speak or smile to ease Constance’s palpable discomfort when their own had not been considered.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“Sisters have no need to defend themselves against each other,” Beth told him before Jo slapped his arm with the back of her hand. “Around the two of you, she might,” he replied without hesitation, nodding first at Joanna and then toward Amy.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“They’re only ever speaking for us, and about us. Rarely with us. Even when they have our best interest in mind, how could they know it without our input? The person who believes they know best, still, in some small way and in some interior place they’ve yet to interrogate, does not truly comprehend equality. Yet they mean to deliver us to it.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“No one is free until we all are,” he answered, and around the table there was unanimous approval. There were sounds like something between a sigh of relief and an involuntary hum, and the glimmer snuck back into Meg’s eye.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“No one was ever a master, dear heart. They were only enslavers, and they aren’t now. Not anymore, and never again.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

“Be free.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix