Family Quotes

“Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We! … We the human Family. God said so! FAMILY!”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“The devil is the busiest thing I know.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“Always sighed deep. “Don’t talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain’t.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“Always gave birth to his children, it was for business reasons, not for love, so he didn’t count them to be much to him. They was for work, or sale.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“They was in the farmyard and she just picked up a pitchfork and stabbed him with it.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“It was THAT day the Master of the Land said my mama was goin to go for to be his son’s night-mate too, smilin down at her like he was doin her some special kinda good favor.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“My mother had nine more children for the Master of the Land, but they was all sold when they got to be bout three years old by the Mistress of the Land cause they was too white and lookin like the Master of the Land. That, and the money.”
― J. California Cooper, Family